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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 5642624" data-attributes="member: 8835">I'm trying to Camel-Tent-Nose DA here.  If under certain conditions poo can be art, then under those same conditions other things can be art.I'd like to get him to sigh exasperatively and say "fine, under certain conditions a session of D&D can be Art..."The study about humans reaction to being told something was an original piece of famous art is interesting.  To me, it means if Somebody tells YOU that Someting is Art, then it is Art.I've seen this effect with my own work.  I showed some pics of a piece I was working on, and everybody was asking me what it would take to get one of their own.  i told them $500.  They all of course were dismayed, but it did not stop their appreciation of the piece.  The barrier for them appeared to be, they don't spend $500 on art (think $20).  My high price put my work higher in their mind of its value.  meanwhile, my wife (who is a trained artist) has put her work in local craft sales, and had trouble selling $60 items.  Now I could be misreading their thinking of my price, but I feel certain that I manipulated their appraisal of the piece by maintaining the air of "This I$ Art."Back on to more ridiculous examples:If you take a photo of the sunset, and it wins a prize at an art show, it's art.  yet you didn't make anything, you just clicked a button.As I thought I said before, the Mona Lisa was a portrait.  The Renaisance equivalent of a Polaroid.  It was considered Art because that's what they called paintings back then.  But it's still just a photo made by hand.  And it is Art.On the glass flower thing, do you really think a guy would go through such painstaking work (and that kind of work would be done by a glass artist NOT just a scientist) and not see it for a work of art.If its man-made and beautiful to behold, it's probably art.  Man wouldn't have taken the time to carefully refine its appearance if he didn't consider it art. This is why a lot of old antiques are very fancy looking.  Because it was meant to be functional and artful.Up until some point in the art world, art was beautiful and had craftsmanship.  Then, art people got wierd ideas and it became OK for art to be wierd looking (impressionism, abstract, etc).</blockquote>

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