According to Dictionary.com, art has 16 different definitions.
I have this book that was printed in the 1900s, with quotes on various subjects by people time has generally forgotten. There are a couple of quotes from this book that get me thinking...
"The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form." - Delsarte
"The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts.-Illusion on a ground of truth, that is the secret of fine art." - Joubert
"The artist ought never perpetuate a temporary expression...A masterpiece of art has, to the mine, a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant of a crystal." - Emerson
Is there really an answer as to what art is? And, more importantly, how can an artist define something they have done as artistic, when in their nature, it is to not define themselves?
Are any of us artists anymore?
Fan-Art for Hope from Marvel's X-men.
Created entirely in Photoshop, with my Wacom.
Took about 3 1/2~4 hours
Reference image found here
Maybe I can get into the swing of things, once I can define myself as an artist again.
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