What does art mean to you?

I was very lucky to meet an artist. It changed my life. He is an artist of life. Does that always come together?
Do you have to drink a lot of alcohol and use drugs to be an artist? Or do you have a responsibility to sense time quality and express it? Where are we heading to?
In the past artists often were ahead of their time. They hung around together and influenced each other.
On this site I already met some very interesting person. Are there any more artists, life artists or friends of art?

I love to hear from you.....Christine

I think, art is kind of "precipitator" in my case. It precipitates the beauty, the good, the aesthetic from my very soul. Otherwise my soul is nothing but a primordial soup: it may cause everything but means barely nothing.

Thank you for your reply. I think everybody is this beauty. It´s so important that artists express it for everyone to see. A painting in a living room should help to recognice this beauty inside....c.

...Artists are above all also barometers of current events. For this very reason, they are very often
not fully integrated into the social order. They need a 'distance' to be able to perceive currents.

And ... Art can never be concerned only with beauty. The consumer may not like that, but it is a fact.
In times like ours, art is heavily censored again. Nothing has changed in that respect. Today, the
censorship is merely by the masses, whose need for a 'picture-to-go-with-the-sofa' or 'light-music-in-
the-background' aso. has a strong influence on what happens in the ART-world.

Works of art are a kind of Research Mission. To understand artworks, one has to look/listen/feel
inside oneself. They rarely reveal themselves in a superficial way....

I disagree at some exact point. I belive in that "Ars Gratia Artis". If some makes so-called art for masses or depending on the demands from society, I'd rather call them "merchants" than artists. Art rather favors "aesthetes" than "consumers".

Art means for me one of the highest form of connection with the power of universe, showing all in a completely universal way - giving light to each and everything!

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"Real artists are the druids of the present.
Magic born out of silence is the answer to our challenges."

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Artists don`t act by being someone
but by vanishing and leaving the show to mother nature.

To me Art means freedom. It allows me to do as I want, paint at the spur of the moment. If I 'plan' Art, it could become kind of mechanical which I don't like it to be.

Art is an expression of human imagination. Alcohol and Drugs have an influence on imagination. I guess problem start when someone try to live in an imaginary world using Alcohol and Drugs.

nothing i just like to watch it

Feeling inner peace and releasing anger from within

I like this answer. Are you an artist yourself, or do you experience this when looking at art?

To me, it's a mean of communication when words lack. By word, I essentially mean the act of speaking, because you could find a way to communicate by writting, and often, the way someone writes is different from the way people speak.

For me, as someone said, "Art is the feeling of human things combined with the presentiment of divine things". Maybe it's too romantic a concept? But we already find ourselves in the current reality, there is a need for a "beyond".

My mom and i like to go to museums but my dad doesnt really like it and thinks it is boring. But when i go with my mom she can be in front of a painting and tell me that she likes it BUTTT she does not normally say why. And that is super frustrating bc i want to also understand from others how you look at art and WHY people like for example one painting but not another painting or art work.

Is there anybody in this forum who would like to discuss also not art generally but to have for example 4 pictures of paintings or other arts and everybody can tell what they like or dont like about it? I would really be interested in it and to learn what others like and how they look. And i can also tell what i think. 🙂

I know that normally on 🌞-day the forum is more quiet but perhaps if people are also interested we can write below any time in the week. I think it may be really nice to discuss it that way too!! 🥰🥰

EDIT: I do not want to change the subject in this forum without permission of Christine so i made a new forum: Opinion about specific paintings and art works and i mentioned there this forum bc i think they are SUPER good together like a TWIN!!! 🙂

My mom and i like to go to museums but my dad doesnt really like it and thinks it is boring. But when i go with my mom she can be in front of a painting and tell me that she likes it BUTTT she does not normally say why. And that is super frustrating bc i want to also understand from others how you look at art and WHY people like for example one painting but not another painting or art work.

Is there anybody in this forum who would like to discuss also not art generally but to have for example 4 pictures of paintings or other arts and everybody can tell what they like or dont like about it? I would really be interested in it and to learn what others like and how they look. And i can also tell what i think. 🙂

I know that normally on 🌞-day the forum is more quiet but perhaps if people are also interested we can write below any time in the week. I think it may be really nice to discuss it that way too!! 🥰🥰

Yeah, you can put on some paintings and I'll give my opinion on it! 😄

Oh, just today I had some conversation, about what the art truly is, since today some people call bananas glued to the wall "art". Oh, or the performance I saw, where one guy pours a bucket of water on the floor, and other guy walks through it, and it's also called "art", just because author calls it like this.

Do anyone have some thoughts about that?

Oh, just today I had some conversation, about what the art truly is, since today some people call bananas glued to the wall "art". Oh, or the performance I saw, where one guy pours a bucket of water on the floor, and other guy walks through it, and it's also called "art", just because author calls it like this.

Do anyone have some thoughts about that?

I don't think that's art. That's people who really can't paint or sm and just do something, think of an appropriate meaning behind it and then it's tada; art!

I agree with @Oxiu and @-Kiki- wrote that i also dont understand it. For me it is not art i like. BUTTTT i do want to know why they do that as art. Maybe if they tell more about it at least we understand WHYY they do it. But i like art more like what you see in museums. Also modern art but normally i like other art more. 🙂