Artyczar
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Txomsy,
Maybe you didn't get that I personally don't agree with the cave paintings NOT being art. We don't know for sure what the intention behind them was. But I think there's no way the cave painters intended it as art (as we have come to know "art" in today's context). There's no way to know. I believe it is art, and art can't be defined in simple terms. It could have been religious, graffiti, warnings to hunters, worship of the animals, maps...who knows? But, it doesn't really matter because they are beautiful anyway you slice them. Perhaps it was the first true outsider art under the original terms of outsider art. Art for no one and/or anyone-- the maker not being concerned with making their mark as an "artist." Again, meaning an artist as we have come to know it.
I also don't think I am superior or that utility is incompatible with art, and I definitely don't think art is limited to painting.
Just sayin'.
Maybe you didn't get that I personally don't agree with the cave paintings NOT being art. We don't know for sure what the intention behind them was. But I think there's no way the cave painters intended it as art (as we have come to know "art" in today's context). There's no way to know. I believe it is art, and art can't be defined in simple terms. It could have been religious, graffiti, warnings to hunters, worship of the animals, maps...who knows? But, it doesn't really matter because they are beautiful anyway you slice them. Perhaps it was the first true outsider art under the original terms of outsider art. Art for no one and/or anyone-- the maker not being concerned with making their mark as an "artist." Again, meaning an artist as we have come to know it.
I also don't think I am superior or that utility is incompatible with art, and I definitely don't think art is limited to painting.
Just sayin'.