Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="RainOfSteel" data-source="post: 5642747" data-attributes="member: 24460">I thought the "trash" comment meant you did not like them.  My apologies.If someone looked at them and thought they were, they would be.A wild flower is not a product of skill, not if it grew up in the wild, anyway.Cultivated flower beds and all arrangements are examples of art.It's not a product of skill, although any scene including it might be called artistic just because it is so beautiful.  This can include references to flowers growing in the wild, too; they're certainly beautiful.Art is not narrowly defined, it is broadly defined.I don't know the specifics of the example in question.  I had thought you were referring to a paint-splatter example created by a person and then put up for display (on the side of the road).If you were bringing up an item created through random inadvertent acts, people accidentally getting pain on it, then I normally wouldn't include it as art.  However, if someone came along and looked at it, and thought it was art, it would be.Accident can, I think, create art.  Just as it can create other things.</blockquote>