I have often asked, what is art? Why I ask it? Why so many times? I am curious. I learned that when one asks the same question over and over one gets different replies… But, when I ask a question like this I am hoping to get some deep, visceral answers, not the typical ones… So, I ask you, what is art to you? Perhaps that is a better way to ask, as sometimes when you don’t ask the right question you don’t get the right answer, but when you ask it right, then thigs begin to open up… Sometimes I think art is like a bullfighter (very common in my country) approaching the meanest bull. Or it could be the other way around. What do you think?
Here is a little of what art has been to me over the more than thirty years that I have been at it professionally…
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JaZzArt en València 
Thank you, Francesco, for your wonderful examples of Art!
Joanna
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I really liked your reply to the initial question here, Joanna, and I appreciate it. Thank you so much!
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Thank you, Francesco, and you are welcome!
Joanna
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You are more than welcome, Francesco!
Joanna
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Nice
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Thank you Satyam. And what is art to you?
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Art 🖼️ is a way of living painting 🖼️ your emotions on canvas which is wonderful 🙏
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What a fab way of looking at art! Thank you so much!
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Thanks ☺️ dear freinds art 🖼️ is true essence of life🎸
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And we quite agree! Thank you Satyam!
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Welcome 🎸dear
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We also think it’s good to be asked several times the same question, because the answer to the first question is usually the most conventional one.
So, a work of art is a self-contained form that refers first to itself and then to other works of art. It stands in the history of similar works of art.
As I said, unlike non-art, art is self-referential. Furthermore, the environment in which an artefact appears also influences whether it is art (see Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s tomato soup can). The recipients largely determine whether something is art or not. Their judgement depends on what they have seen before.
Happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Thank you very much! I also think that art is a business, a profession through the which many of us make our living. We, as artists, are trained and educated and coing work such as would any other professional. However, we must make sure we create in good taste and wok that resonates and if we are lucky we become very famous and make much money. All the best to you!
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Buenísimo, me gusta tu forma de escribir. Es un buen artículo.
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Muchísimas gracias Nora. Y ¿Qué piensas tú?
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Encatandada 🙂 Tal vez podamos decir que el arte es la forma más humana de manifestarse. Es un impulso profundo, una necesidad interior de traducir lo invisible: las emociones que no caben en el lenguaje, las ideas que no tienen forma hasta que alguien las pinta, las canta o las talla.Es sensibilidad convertida en gesto, en materia, en sonido, en vacío. El arte no es, ante todo, el hecho de crear.Es, sobre todo sentir.
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Muy bien dicho, y muy de acuerdo. Muchísimas gracias Ñora! Saludos desde España.
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Sorry, encantada 😀
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Gracias!
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I guess art it’s like pornography. I can’t define it but, I’ll know it when I see it.
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That’s a good analogy… thanks!
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