{"id":406,"date":"2021-07-18T12:52:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-18T19:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsart\/?p=406"},"modified":"2021-07-20T10:36:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T17:36:57","slug":"what-is-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsart\/?p=406","title":{"rendered":"What is Art?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>(baby don&#8217;t hurt me, don&#8217;t hurt me, no more\u2026  never mind)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Legit question, though &#8212; What is art? If someone has an art website, what should they post on it? Interestingly, it&#8217;s a slippery slope&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#x2714;\ufe0e <strong>Original artwork<\/strong> &#8211; Of course. Digital or physical, any artwork created by the poster is acceptable to post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>~<\/strong> <strong>Photos<\/strong> &#8211; Generally, but it depends on what the photo is of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>&#x2714;\ufe0e <strong>Nature<\/strong> &#8211; Yes. What&#8217;s artsy is &#8212; seeing something attractive in nature, framing the image, and capturing it well. It&#8217;s not as if you&#8217;re taking credit for what nature produced.<\/li><li>&#x2714;\ufe0e <strong>Architecture<\/strong> &#8211; Yes. Similar to nature. Again, you&#8217;re not taking credit for the building, etc.<\/li><li>\u2718 <strong>Someone Else&#8217;s Artwork<\/strong> &#8211; No, or maybe&#8230; Are you artsy if you look at 100 works of art, find 5 that are amazing, and share those 5? Isn&#8217;t it sort of like finding something beautiful in nature&#8230;? This is the grouping that troubles me. If I share someone else&#8217;s art that resonates with me, then it says something about me. It seems <em>kind of<\/em> OK &#8212; as long as I don&#8217;t take credit for the item itself. In a way, it&#8217;s like sharing architecture &#8212; someone else made it, but I think it&#8217;s really nice&#8230;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;ll keep posting stuff &#8212; and may better solidify the line around what is\/isn&#8217;t proper to post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NEW QUESTION &#8212; What about being inspired by someone else&#8217;s art?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>If I did my own version of the Mona Lisa, that would probably be OK because it&#8217;s a generally-recognized piece of artwork.<\/li><li>But what if I did my own version of an unknown piece of art? Seems a little less OK if no one knows the original &#8212; unless maybe I link to the original. (I have a lot of inspirational artwork that I&#8217;ve bookmarked.)<\/li><li>What if I copy\/pasted the Mona Lisa and briefly changed something minor about it? (Today&#8217;s modern digital tools easily allow copy\/paste\/tweak.) Seems less OK, because my contribution\/addition may not add meaningful artistic value. Almost as if there is a minimum number of hours you need to invest to call it &#8216;your artwork&#8217;&#8230;?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(baby don&#8217;t hurt me, don&#8217;t hurt me, no more\u2026 never mind) Legit question, though &#8212; What is art? If someone has an art website, what should they post on it? Interestingly, it&#8217;s a slippery slope&#8230; &#x2714;\ufe0e Original artwork &#8211; Of course. Digital or physical, any artwork created by the poster is acceptable to post. ~ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsart\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsart\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsart\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsart\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsart\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsart\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsart\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsart\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsart\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomsart\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}