Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[payn]

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Apologies. Original or WHICH cover?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Why don't I exercise and eat well? Because no one cares how long they live, they care how much they live. That's why I make sure to enjoy my time and do fun things, like go to the theater.
-Abraham Lincoln

“Holey presidential jokes, Blyatman!”

 

[overgeeked]

"That isn't really art" has the same energy as "you aren't really having fun."

Sure. They’re both entirely subjective statements of experience that are not universally shared by others. I like it, it’s fun, that’s art. All the same really. What you find fun, I might not. What I like, you might not. What you think is art, I might not. Music I like, you might not like. Etc. Humor is much the same way. “That’s not funny.” “Well I thought it was.” Who’s right? They both are. Because it’s subjective, not objective. Like what’s labeled art.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I haven’t yet, but one day, I need to go to a function at a museum or gallery with a name tag, “Hello, My Name Is: 𝓐𝓡𝓣”

 

[trappedslider]

I know Art, and personally I think he’s a pretty nice guy.

Take my angry up vote!

I haven’t yet, but one day, I need to go to a function at a museum or gallery with a name tag, “Hello, My Name Is: 𝓐𝓡𝓣”

do it....

 

[payn]

do it....

 

[Alzrius]

I dunno. I kinda agree with that one. Without us to label it art, it’s just pigment on canvas. Art is an aesthetic evaluation, not a statement of fact.

But those aesthetics exist independently of their viewer. If I find something beautiful, the qualities that I think make it beautiful will continue to exist even without my viewing them. It's not so much an "evaluation" as it is a "recognition." Just because it's subjective doesn't mean its existence depends on the viewer.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

And given enough time, if no one cares about a piece of art, who will bother to preserve it? Then it really will vanish.

True story.

When Paul Simon stopped looking at Art, Art truly learned the sound of silence.

And with that anecdote, I have now shown that Art does, in fact, require an audience. Q, to the E, to the D.

 

[Ryujin]

"Art cannot exist without its audience."

- some guy who thinks the Mona Lisa will vanish if no one looks at it.

Schrodinger's Paint.