alt Hacker NewsI define art as something that evokes an emotion or feeling. I’ve seen people wax poetic about the ”meaning” of an imagine only to find out that the image was created synthetically.
Were those “feelings” not authentic?
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I don't think it is about the feelings or emotions evoked in the observer. At least not in that generality. It only is, if there is an intention in the creating process of the art, that aims at evoking the emotions or feelings. Otherwise going by the more general definition, many everyday objects become art. Home becomes art. The way to the office becomes art, even if it completely sucks.
If someone lies and convinces you that a loved one has died and you cry, were those feelings authentic?
Art that provokes emotion in a cheap or manipulative way is often, if not always, bad art.
If I see a cloud in the shape of my childhood dog and start to cry, is the cloud art?