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<blockquote data-quote="wrecan" data-source="post: 5641563" data-attributes="member: 64825">I bet you have.&nbsp; Go back to my post and read the first two paragraphs.&nbsp; What I describe there is a conscious decision to create art.Artistic effort is conduct designed to elicit an emotional response in the audience observing the product.&nbsp; That product may be a performance, a statue, or a snow angel.&nbsp; It may also be a shared story created with the use of improvised descriptions, dice, and rules.So to answer Croesus' question, if the product is designed to elicit an emotional reaction, it's art.&nbsp; A short story is art, whether or not it is presented as fiction.&nbsp; Acrobatic maneuvers can be art, depending on why the person is engaging in the acrobatics (and regardless of the locale).&nbsp; Making a snow angel is art.&nbsp; Falling down (unless you intend the result to elicit emotion, such as a Charlie Chaplin pratfall, or a painter dousing himself in paint and falling onto a canvas) is not art because it is nto intended to elicit emotion.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wrecan, post: 5641563, member: 64825"] I bet you have. Go back to my post and read the first two paragraphs. What I describe there is a conscious decision to create art. Artistic effort is conduct designed to elicit an emotional response in the audience observing the product. That product may be a performance, a statue, or a snow angel. It may also be a shared story created with the use of improvised descriptions, dice, and rules. So to answer Croesus' question, if the product is designed to elicit an emotional reaction, it's art. A short story is art, whether or not it is presented as fiction. Acrobatic maneuvers can be art, depending on why the person is engaging in the acrobatics (and regardless of the locale). Making a snow angel is art. Falling down (unless you intend the result to elicit emotion, such as a Charlie Chaplin pratfall, or a painter dousing himself in paint and falling onto a canvas) is not art because it is nto intended to elicit emotion. [/QUOTE]

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