But is it art?
In Euro-update update, the Cognitive Daily blog addresses the age-old question, “But is it art?”, with an amusing and heated discussion about whether a photo of a person staring at three white canvases is art (a follow-up to an earlier post about whether the three white canvases themselves are art).
The discussions are enough to make your head hurt but it’s interesting to see how passionate people still can be about this subject so many years after Duchamp (and Warhol, Prince, Minimalism, etc., etc.).
My own two cents: If something is created with the intent of being art, then it’s art; or, if something is displayed with the intent of being art, then it’s art. Quality is an entirely separate matter, raising issues of taste, market forces, influence, originality, creativity, technical standards, and yes, intent (if the intent was to create three blank canvases, then the artist succeeded; if the intent was to create a lush green landscape, then the three blank canvases don’t do a good job).
