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Re: Swearing?
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Date: 
Wed, 5 Jan 2000 02:16:34 GMT
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Christopher Weeks <clweeks@eclipse.net> wrote:
1. It must be intentional. (a beautiful sunset is not art)
2. It must provoke emotion in some/most viewers. (it need not be a
pleasant response)
3. It must be explainable. (this is pretty fuzzy)

Something which sums up all of this is, and a definition I use, is:
"art is expression which communicates at an emotional level".



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  Re: Swearing?
 
Hi all, (...) I spent six years and 30 college credits taking art classes and spent a fair amount of time thinking about this issue. To my mind, some, but possibly not all, of the criteria are: 1. It must be intentional. (a beautiful sunset is not (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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