Digital BW, The Print

I'd argue that criticism, or emotion "in a work of art lies in the
perception as such by an outside audience", but art is made manifest upon
creation.

An artist may produce work which in retrospect they deem a failure, and tear
it up and never show it, but they were making art at the time.

Todd

 
> audience. 

> I'd agree with your rhetorical question - that an act of creation does not
> become a work of art until
> it is received by another. It doesn't mean that it isn't a creative work,
> could be excellent, but
> excellence in a work of art lies in the perception as such by an outside
> audience. 
> 
> Tim
> 
>> So a person who "creates" work purely for their own enjoyment, for the
>> love of the act rather than the result, is not an artist, and their
>> creations are not art until they are seen?
>> 
>> I realize this is analogous to whether a tree makes as sound when it
>> falls....and the sound of one hand clapping....But art is a Zen thing.
>> It is a function of the mindset of the artist in the moment(s) of
>> creation.
>> 
>> Art isn't in the object that we see, it's in the process that creates
>> it. The power it may or may not have over us is in our interpretation
>> of it, but art lives in creation. No viewer is required.
>> 
> 
> --
> Tim Spragens
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> http://www.borderless-photos.de
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