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No. You are not expressing anything.
If you put a table in the middle of a busy sidewalk stood on it and starting abusing yourself, that could be art. It also would get you arrested, if the crowd did not first maim you.
its a dog that was prolly going to get run over on the streets by some maniac anyways..... get over it..... next time you're eating prime rib steak think long and hard..... ing hypocrites
No. You are not expressing anything.
If you put a table in the middle of a busy sidewalk stood on it and starting abusing yourself, that could be art. It also would get you arrested, if the crowd did not first maim you.
Katy - I just want you to know how hard it was to avoid Phillipino jokes in this thread. Just realize the level of restraint I am currently showing. That is all.
Absolutely true.
Its almost funny TO ME that people can honestly sit there and say that what he did was art. I know that there is all kinds of art. What this man did was not art. I don't care how you try to spin it, its not art.
Oh I'm expressing something alright. All over the shower tiles.
There have been many excellent definitions here of what art is. But true art is sincere. We can look at something, dissect it and define it as art. But sincerity can only be "sensed" or "felt". And though this may meet some of the requirements to be called art--it doesn't feel sincere.
You're a ing prick.
And it's Filipino, jackass.
Yeah well you know I can't spell.
Katy you are my 2nd favorite poster after CBF for now.
What will it take to move into the one spot?
I'm just curious, if this guy would have done this with lets say a rat or possum or some other disgusting creature would it cause this much uproar?
If I have to grudgingly consider a de Kooning to be art, then I have to call this art, too.
Again, I don't think that justifies or excuses the actions.
If you condemned the artist for wasting food...
I believe Funt pointed out a few posts back that the uproar is a result of our attempt to apply American values to the situation. So, no, a rat or possum would probably not evoke much of an uproar.
Anyone that defends this is as ed up as him.
Johngateswhitely defending doesn't suprise me at all.
The guy responsible for this should be chained up whipped within an inch of his life, THEN starved to death.
God i want to hug my dog too now...
btw pardon me for feeling bad for a defensless dog whos starving to death, as "applying american values" if applying american values is having a heart, then I wish to apply ing american values to everything then.
Find me a single post where anyone has defended the guy's actions.
I was specifically referring to the post that labeled starving the dog as a crime -- it may not be a crime in Honduras.
yea, me too. haha
You're not tracking here. I'm just saying that in our society, a domesticated dog is valued more than a rat or possum. I don't think Funt or I meant that only lame Americans feel sorry for a dog! Otay?
art
–noun 1. the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.
2. the class of objects subject to aesthetic criteria; works of art collectively, as paintings, sculptures, or drawings: a museum of art; an art collection.
3. a field, genre, or category of art: Dance is an art.
4. the fine arts collectively, often excluding architecture: art and architecture.
5. any field using the skills or techniques of art: advertising art; industrial art.
6. (in printed matter) illustrative or decorative material: Is there any art with the copy for this story?
7. the principles or methods governing any craft or branch of learning: the art of baking; the art of selling.
8. the craft or trade using these principles or methods.
9. skill in conducting any human activity: a master at the art of conversation.
10. a branch of learning or university study, esp. one of the fine arts or the humanities, as music, philosophy, or literature.
11. arts, a. (used with a singular verb) the humanities: a college of arts and sciences.
b. (used with a plural verb) liberal arts.
12. skilled workmanship, execution, or agency, as distinguished from nature.
13. trickery; cunning: glib and devious art.
14. studied action; artificiality in behavior.
15. an artifice or artful device: the innumerable arts and wiles of politics.
16. Archaic. science, learning, or scholarship.
Nope...dog killing is not on there.
I've always thought of "art" as an interpretation or a representation, not something real. You can depict a murder through photos, paintings, sculpture, interpretive dance, etc., and that would be art. The physical act of murder, in, and of itself, is not art. I know that JGW said killing the dog in the art gallery was supposed to represent people ignoring starving animals in the streets, but the truth of the matter is that the killing the artist committed really has nothing to do with what he supposedly was representing. It is it's own atrocity. It's an artist performing a premeditated torture and killing of a captive animal, not homeless dogs starving in the streets.
Similarly, a collection of drawings done from the memory of 9/11 is art, but attempting to recreate a representation of the event by running a plane through a skyscraper and killing a couple thousand folks would not be art. It would be a different act of murder with it's own set of cir stances and victims.
Despite what some folks have argued in here, there is no "art" associated with killing this dog.
I'd have to agree with EHJ, which doesn't happen much.
The one thing I hate in this world the most is people ing with animals, old people, and babies.
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