Is it Art?

[sleemanj]

Originally posted by gmarceau

Well, that's the wildcard reply at every game of "let's define stuff better". In particular, it can be asked over and over ad noseum. But if you realize that the repeated asking eventualy has to stop at a sufficient common shared experience, will I play along.

Ahh but this was my point. With words like art we cannot whittle a definition down to a single common shared experience, it is impossible, always there will be somebody who our definition does not fit. And for this reason the best we can do is define art as being - things (pictures, sculptures, code - even just thought is good) an artist produces. And we can define the artist recursively as a person who produces art, thus defining anybody who creates anything as an artist, and everything produced as art - at least to somebody.

Tidy.