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2 Art is anything that anyone creates that invokes a reaction from someone else first bird on horse Is this an apt description of art?

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7 It expresses the artists feeling about his or her life, and his perception or feelings and emotions about a particular time or era, and it s beautiful. pigeon on statue of liberty

8 I see art in everything, just walking down the streets debris in the streets and people miss that point You don t even really have to go to a museum to see art. bear/dog/guy on date. Agree? Disagree? Why? Is intervention from an artist or maker required for something to be art?

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10 Julia Schenkelberg

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12 I love that there s the elephant at the zoo that paints. Is that art? No. You know why? Because they taught the elephant to put the brush in the Now the monkey that throws poo? He s making art, because he s living the experience. I don t wanna look at your ugly face, I m gonna throw poo at you. That s art. Gorilla in the zoo In the creative process, what is more important skill and process or impulse and experience? Which makes art more real? How does this factor into defining art?

13 Bob Ross Marina Abramovic, The Artist is Present Happenings: late Performance Art Involvement of the viewer The performance is different every time. Games, environments for the viewer. Allan Kaprow, Yard (1961)

14 Just because you say it s art doesn t mean it s art. For instance, the moron in central park with the flags. That was not art. Hippo in water Once explained, is it still NOT art? Can something be art if it is misunderstood?

15 The installation in Central Park was completed with the blooming of the 7,503 fabric panels on February 12, The gates and the fabric panels could be seen from far away through the leafless branches of the trees. The work of art remained for 16 days, then the gates were removed and the materials recycled. The grid pattern of the city blocks surrounding Central Park was reflected in the rectangular structure of the commanding saffron colored poles while the serpentine design of the walkways and the organic forms of the bare branches of the trees were mirrored in the continuously changing rounded and sensual movements of the free-flowing fabric panels in the wind. The people of New York continued to use the park as usual. For those who walked through The Gates, the saffron colored fabric was a golden ceiling creating warm shadows. When seen from the buildings surrounding Central Park, The Gates seemed like a golden river appearing and disappearing through the bare branches of the trees and highlighting the shape of the meandering footpaths.

16 Dogs playing poker rules. It is good. I mean, It looks like dogs. Is is art because it is representational? Or because it s a painting? Or does the content make it art? What about the fact that it s an advertisement? Does that make it more or less art?

17 C.M. Coolidge Dogs Playing Poker 16 paintings total Commissioned by Brown and Bigelow as ads for Cigars

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20 Art might be totally different in the mind of the creator and the various eyes of the beholders. They may all have a different idea about what it is or what it means, and none of them are wrong. - duck Somebody could take a pile of dog crap and put a couple of mister potato head ears or mushrooms on it. To them that s art. - goat

21 Chris Ofili Holy Virgin Mary 1996

22 Piero Manzoni, Artist s Shit, 1961

23 My number one pet peeve is dolphin art. - fish in tank What is dolphin art? Can we make a broader generalization about kitsch? Where and when does kitsch have value in art? (Kitsch = art, objects, or design considered to be in poor taste because of excessive garishness or sentimentality, but sometimes appreciated in an ironic or knowing way.)

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25 Jeff Koons Michael Jackson with Bubbles 1988

26 In modern 20 th century art, if you don t discuss comic books you re either a snob or a fool. gopher in living room True or false? Examples of comic books in media, design, cinema

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29 I consider ballet or interpretive dance, ala Martha Graham yeah, that s artistic. But booty shakin, crotch grabbin, hunchin no. Agree or disagree? Is this an example of cultural ethnocentricity?

30 Martha graham American dancer and choreographer, (51 minutes) Beyonce (Towards end of video)

31 Some people paint, some people write, but somehow you have to affect the world and the society. Its all about leaving something for history Or maybe it s just to leave your mark!