Is this really art?

[GePap]

Fez..I am from Panama.

Keep up buddie, and look at the Flags!

[Giancarlo]

Okay why did I never know that... hmm....

I didn't recognize the flag you had.. I never payed much attention to it...

[Q Classic]

sure it's art.

maybe as much as you can say that artifice is art.

[monolith94]

I'd say that it's art, yes.

[Hurricane]

Sure this is art. I don't see any reason why it wouldn't be art.

[Thoth]

It strikes me as being harmles, though a bit pointless. It's no worse than half the crap that gets pawned off as art nowdays.

[LTEC!]

In modern art its considered a "happening" (started with you hippies)
but you could also group it with mass urban art.

so yes.

[Buck Birdseed]

Certainly. His expression is reasonably meaningful in itself, carrying the dual layers of texture and bodies and contrasting our perceptions of both. It's also quite evocative, bringing forth at least a couple of emotional reactions and mental associations in most people.

It's perhaps not the best of art and it's starting to wear thin, but it's certainly more artistic than a lot of pre-modern painting...

[alva]

so if I take pictures of my penis and send it to women I like that would be art right? The judges never see it that way though, I always get restraining orders put on me.

For starters, your intention isn't the same

[Kropotkin]

If some people like to think of it as art, then it's art. It isn't really art for me personally though. But, unless a number of people through history, I don't feel the need to force my own estetic thoughts on other people through, laws, violence or just plain mockery. As long as their not in the way for me if I'm about to cross the square to get to something, they can do whatever they want.

[Ben Kenobi]

"Art should uplift."

[Kropotkin]

As a side note: Art that Fez doesn't understand or aprove of is of cource leftist crap. I knew he would say that before I opened up the tread.

[Frankychan]

No, it's not art.

I've said it once and I'll say it again:

I can crap in a bag, put it on display, and call it "art".

[MRT144]

its more of an event

[Buck Birdseed]

Originally posted by Frankychan
I can crap in a bag, put it on display, and call it "art".

You could also call it a Ukulele but that dunn make it one or the other.

Where in your expression would meaning be conveyed? What would you be trying to say with the turd? Nothing. Is it original? Provocative? Hardly. Is it a particularly intense or visually interesting expression? Nope. What you're left with is the meaningless, intellectually shallow faeces of a simpleton, not even remotely art.

Now if you were doing it 'cause your father beat you or something, then it could possibly be construed as art.