What Is Art

Flint · 04-10-2010, 11:45 PM

The Flint/Pooka family went to the Fort Worth Main Street Arts Festival, although I was a little uncomfortable with the word "art" in the title, not knowing whether a team of PhDs had scrutinized all of the participating "artists" to determine the validity of their so-called work.

In reality, though, there were some very interesting pieces to check out. Like these, three-dimensional objects that pretend to be rendered in unrealistic perspective, by Fred Stodder; these, motorized, perpetual motion "Rube Goldberg" machines, by Jeffery Zachman; these, vibrant geometrical contrivances, by Terry Habeger; these, larger-than-life "Dr. Seuss" apparatus, by Andrew Carson & Shelly Corbett.

Each of these men/women I considered to be artists with some accomplishment to speak of; although if the grand inquisition of "true art" deems them to be otherwise, I suppose I shall have to (as a good citizen) punch each of them in the nose, for tricking me into appreciating their non-art garbage.

04-10-2010, 11:45 PM	#32
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	The Flint/Pooka family went to the Fort Worth Main Street Arts Festival, although I was a little uncomfortable with the word "art" in the title, not knowing whether a team of PhDs had scrutinized all of the participating "artists" to determine the validity of their so-called work. In reality, though, there were some very interesting pieces to check out. Like these, three-dimensional objects that pretend to be rendered in unrealistic perspective, by Fred Stodder; these, motorized, perpetual motion "Rube Goldberg" machines, by Jeffery Zachman; these, vibrant geometrical contrivances, by Terry Habeger; these, larger-than-life "Dr. Seuss" apparatus, by Andrew Carson & Shelly Corbett. Each of these men/women I considered to be artists with some accomplishment to speak of; although if the grand inquisition of "true art" deems them to be otherwise, I suppose I shall have to (as a good citizen) punch each of them in the nose, for tricking me into appreciating their non-art garbage. __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

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