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What is art? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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Hello fellow artists and art-enjoyers. I would like to listen to yall's opinions on this topic. what is art? what is art for? and if you wanna share an art or two i will happily put my eyes on them.

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[–] 5 points 1 week ago (1 child)
  1. Art generates an emotion in the spectator. 2. That is its only goal; hence it complements all that stuff we need to survive, in a sense it is superfluous.
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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    I would posit that art generates an emotion in the artist as well, and at least for me, it's existential.

    If i don't art.. i kinda become a horrible person and wanna die, so at least for me.. it is not superfluous, unless we accept that life is superfluous, in which case, I agree.

    then again... calling something superfluous in a capitalist-extractivist society is a high compliment meaning something akin to "can't be exploited" which I find beautiful too. Thank you kindly for sharing :)

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