How do you decide what makes a photograph "art?"

[skieur]

Intent.


That's pretty much it.

Nope, Intent is irrelevant unless it has been successfully achieved in the photo.

skieur

 

[Brieff]

I don't think "art" can really be defined. If you meant for it to be art, it's art.

"Art" is made, intentionally. I guess it's possible to make art accidentally though. Everyone gets lucky sometimes. Better to be lucky than good, right?

Damn...now even my original "intent" response seems wrong...lol. Maybe "desire" would be better...? If you want it to be art, it is.

I agree with this..

Also.. I think it should be something DIFFERENT. You can take 1000 crappy pics of your favoisite mug and tell everyone that every single one of them is a huge piece on artwork... Maybe to you they are, but I would call art something that gives the viewer something different from what she/he sees every day.

This is practically same with a drawing. You can either be Picasso and every single stick figure you draw is considered as art... Or you can be a "total nobody" and create something emotional and inspiring and that would be REAL ART.

The line between art and non-art... nobody knows exactly.
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[skieur]

I don't think "art" can really be defined. If you meant for it to be art, it's art.

"Art" is made, intentionally. I guess it's possible to make art accidentally though. Everyone gets lucky sometimes. Better to be lucky than good, right?

Damn...now even my original "intent" response seems wrong...lol. Maybe "desire" would be better...? If you want it to be art, it is.

No! Art is not defined by what the artist intended, but rather by the quality of the work he/she produced.

You also contradict yourself. If art cannot really be defined, then it certainly canNOT be made intentionally. You can't make, what you can't define.

Moreover there is also a element of skill/talent involved. We have all seen the work of photographers who will never get beyond the snapshot level, let alone come remotely close to the artistic level.

skieur

 

[robertwsimpson]

I don't think "art" can really be defined. If you meant for it to be art, it's art.

"Art" is made, intentionally. I guess it's possible to make art accidentally though. Everyone gets lucky sometimes. Better to be lucky than good, right?

Damn...now even my original "intent" response seems wrong...lol. Maybe "desire" would be better...? If you want it to be art, it is.

No! Art is not defined by what the artist intended, but rather by the quality of the work he/she produced.

You also contradict yourself. If art cannot really be defined, then it certainly canNOT be made intentionally. You can't make, what you can't define.

Moreover there is also a element of skill/talent involved. We have all seen the work of photographers who will never get beyond the snapshot level, let alone come remotely close to the artistic level.

skieur

I've seen some "art" that looked like the crayon drawings of a 5 year old.

I've seen an elephant paint a self portrait. Is that art?

I don't think that skill has anything to do with it. If you have an audience, you have someone who is going to think you've created art.


art is too arbitrary to define, I think.

 

[skieur]

I don't think "art" can really be defined. If you meant for it to be art, it's art.

"Art" is made, intentionally. I guess it's possible to make art accidentally though. Everyone gets lucky sometimes. Better to be lucky than good, right?

Damn...now even my original "intent" response seems wrong...lol. Maybe "desire" would be better...? If you want it to be art, it is.

No! Art is not defined by what the artist intended, but rather by the quality of the work he/she produced.

You also contradict yourself. If art cannot really be defined, then it certainly canNOT be made intentionally. You can't make, what you can't define.

Moreover there is also a element of skill/talent involved. We have all seen the work of photographers who will never get beyond the snapshot level, let alone come remotely close to the artistic level.

skieur

I've seen some "art" that looked like the crayon drawings of a 5 year old.

I've seen an elephant paint a self portrait. Is that art?

I don't think that skill has anything to do with it. If you have an audience, you have someone who is going to think you've created art.


art is too arbitrary to define, I think.

Anything can be characterized as "art" in the short term but it is a matter of whether it passes the test of "time" and is still regarded as "art" years and decades later.

skieur

 

[Imagine That]

i think art is very subjective! like marmite, you either love it or hate it! art comes with emotion i think!

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