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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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[–] [S] 5 points 6 days ago (4 children)

What a beautiful answer. I thoroughly enjoyed reading every single line.

My favourite was the cow one, to be honest if i had a pretty cow i would paint it often.

If you would... forgive me, i would call this answer... ART!!! ❤️

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

    Thank you :)

    "Look at my massive cow" is a fully identifiable art style/period:)

    atlasobscura.com - In 19th-Century Britain, The Hottest Status Symbol Was a Painting of Your Cow

    rarehistoricalphotos.com - The Rectangular Cows: Geometric Livestock Depicted in 19th-Century British Paintings

    artuk.org - The rectangular cows of Art UK

    These are all real definitions from someone, somewhere (heavily paraphrased, and original attribution lost, of course).

    What would be the modern equivalent of "Look at my massive cow"? As garish as a solid-gold toilet, perhaps?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    Love the cows, hate that they were status symbols.

    Look at this thing and tell me it's not a fucking massive duck

    The current equivalent.. hmm would be a fancy car or clothes..? maybe a phone? pathetic, i'll take a cow as a status symbol any time of the week, even a chicken.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago* (1 child)

    I sometimes wonder about the more ridiculous ones... but then I think if you've ever produced creative work for a client, and they keep suggesting changes...

    eventually you say "are your sure you want me to do this? It will look ridiculous!"

    And they say "just do it - I'm paying you, you know"

    And you go "okay... I'm just going to make this extra ridiculous so they realise their mistake"

    And then you do it, and rather than realising their mistake, they love it, and they show their friends and colleagues who all love it too, even though they're all objectively wrong.

    [Edit] p.s. I want to see a return to bovine based status symbols. I want to see rap music about dissing the size of each other's cattle and proclaiming your own cow to be the best and largest.

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