I have always measured; Art as the ability to transform anything in to a chimera of itself. A veracity that excludes the very object it personifies. A kernel of art can evolve anywhere aided by boundless catalysts, for art is but a mere alteration of the bona fide. For certain, art is omnipresent. It can be profoundly appealing – Sensually, Spiritually, Intellectually even provocative or just simply innocent. Art can be so beautiful and powerful that it can move a witness through its astuteness to tears or even render one staggered with silence and trepidation.
The Encyclopedia Britannica Dictionary defines "art" as such:
"The conscious use of skill and creative imagination especially in the production of aesthetic objects."
This definition offers no insight as to the chicanery of art. Rather, it explains how one may produce it. Art can transmit ideas, places, perspectives, and even feelings to the observer that he/she has never seen or experienced before. In other words, there is no prerequisite for art. However the fundamental question is; what makes art “ART” is it through the hands of the artist or is it the through the emotional core of the observer?
Art is a vehicle for the transportation of the perceptual stimulus (i.e. aesthetic). The primary purpose of art is to evaluate the external phenomena registered by our senses. When the composition that delights, thrills, captivates or challenges our sensory receptors has been created for that very purpose, we call it “ART” This means that when a piece is created with its primary purpose being that it stimulates the onlooker's senses (whether it is the artist or the observer) it becomes art.
The primary purpose of art must be to be purposeless – to serve no practical purpose other than to excite one's sensory perception. At the heart of any genuine aesthetic response are sensations that have no rational application, material or psychological, yet somehow manage to enrich our lives.
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