What Is Art?
By Leo Gura - July 31, 2017 | 9 Comments
Understanding the essence of art
Mayur says: The worst mistake that you can make is to think that you’re alive, when really you’re asleep in life’s waiting room.
– Waking Life
Natalya says: This is one of your best videos, Leo! It changed my perspective on art, even though I’ve been a professional artist and graphic designer for over 30 years.
One thing I don’t quite agree upon is that rarely a creative professional has the opportunity to wait for inspiration. In reality, creative people who work full-time jobs must produce 5 to 25 pieces of art per day, every day. And when I was in school studying fine art, we were required to produce 100 sketches per week. So it’s humanly impossible to be driven by inspiration (unfortunately).
Another important aspect is that some creative jobs are only partially about aesthetic beauty and may even have very little to do with making stuff pretty. The term communication design is used interchangeably for advertising and graphic design because it’s not about making stuff pretty, but about ‘communicating’ a message to an audience. It’s the art of delivering a message in an easy-to-digest manner with the purpose of generating leads. It’s still art – the art of successfully getting one’s point across – to attract prospects.
So I don’t think all types of art involve inspiration and appreciating the beauty. I think some forms of art are about your proficiency level and becoming a master in what you do. You can not be a beautiful dancer if you’ve had no serious training with years of practice, and you can’t communicate design successfully if you haven’t taken any design and marketing classes, etc. Why? Because if you wait for inspiration, you’ll never learn enough to get to that proficiency level. Again, it doesn’t apply to all forms of art. I’m just speaking from my experience. But thank you for opening my eyes on all the different angles I haven’t considered before.
Mayur says: According to the book Sai Satcharita, Sai Baba arrived at the village of Shirdi in the Ahmednagar District, British India when he was about 16 years old. He led an ascetic life, sitting motionless under a Neem tree and meditated while sitting in an Asana. The Shri Sai Satcharita recounts the reaction of the villagers:
The people of the village were wonderstruck to see such a young lad practicing hard penance, never minding the heat or cold. By day he associated with no one, by night he was afraid of nobody.
His presence attracted the curiosity of the villagers, and he was regularly visited by the religiously inclined, including Mahalsapati, Appa Jogle and Kashinatha. Some considered him mad and threw stones at him. Sai Baba left the village, and little is known about him after that.
adam says: Cant play it. Message states “”Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats available””
Firefox has never failed me in the past viewing Leos stuff.
Michiel says: Around 2 minutes and 2 seconds into the video you mention that art does not exist for birds. But what about singing birds? Isn’t that a kind of art too?
Michiel says: Around 2 minutes and 30 seconds into the video you mention that art does not exist for birds. But what about singing birds? Isn’t that a kind of art too?
Max Gron says: I struggled with my art before yet sending my pictures to Mum via text messages my mother’s come to appreciate my art. It’s really about paintings which I do on my mobile. As art is paintings and sculptures, or it’s creativity or it’s beauty, or it’s a skill learned from instruction, observation, or experience. Science is the art of learning physical reality even though there are markets funding science. That it can’t be rational, that’s nonsense, I got a certificate of art in high school, I’m an artistic genius. My post-impressionist art speaks for itself if only my family and friends see it on my mobile phone and not hung in public on the wall. Do you realize that art is a difficult piece of work that gets rejected, criticised, and demonised? To prevent this why should it be on public display? I was always a reject for everything I did, life in the real world is a poverty-stricken piece of shit. To see art in this is to see it for what it is: the beauty of manipulation and neurotic tendencies to shape it into the dump you’re in to save the lack of public shame by going out dressed beautiful only for society to see your intentions as amoral arty disgrace with no sense of thinking of anyone but yourself, I went through this nightmare and all I see is critics with no art and no imagination who see me as just a freak with no skill, with terrible inventions. I see the tongue-in-cheek aspect of art, artists very often are single and no woman wants them, that’s how one must suffer for their art.
Max Raoy Gron says: This “art” isn’t for me, I don’t find reality in its beauty, but in its willingness to be unimagined, nothing’s art other than that dirty job with art supplies which is shit, or with your phone or computer or some medium which is clean, as this is the case the art of sucking your dick on camera, that’s why art is shit, I’m only an abstract artist to prevent the problems with art.
Max Gron says: Why is the content of my writing graphic, especially containing explicit sexual or drug references? Don’t I have any decency or censorship in my religion or any other belief of mine? Sucking dick? Disgusting! Since my religion is very graphic, I’m going to have a set of morals, like sexual decency, not doing drugs or making light of them, and just being a decent man, it’s immature to talk or behave explicitly, I don’t have to do this, but I choose to so that I have self-restraint, and now it’s made manifest as to why the world thinks I’m evil, unrestrained sex? Very graphic talk of it? It’s just not right. Furthermore as with art I’m wrong, everything is art, there’s the art of motorcycle maintenance, as “the art of” means the skill or craft of doing something, as for master nation, I think USA is one of them, Master Bayte is the king of smoking harmless tobacco, it’s got nothing to do with God’s big head from under the ground watching you before you put your pants on, I think people should be doing art on their phones and enough with the fighting, I think it’s cruel to the animals if it’s cock fighting, nobody here’s cocky, as for cookies, that’s a bunch of cocky people being so vain, that means the jerk in your school locker showing off his sportsmanship with a football, we don’t get this in Australia, thank goodness the USA better provides a Christmas cookie and Australia better provides a birthday orange poppyseed cake, don’t deny it, it’s a work of art, these cute women in glasses taking high school students to McDonald’s, that’s your crush of what you think is beautiful even if your teacher’s fat and has a small button nose. I think this teacher’s cute, but I kept it platonic, it was dirty with Emma Mettwurst, I wanted to fuck her, that’s my high school teacher and people thought I was bad, yes I’m bad, I’m a sexy beast, I like to pat girls on the head and talk up women, although some men have sexual crush on pre-teens, I kept it teenage until I was 18 and only dated legally adult women, so that was the original intention, 16 year Olds are still children, I date women at least 3 years younger than me, 39 years old, or maybe much older than me, from 59 or 60, that must mean I’m the cub, she’s the sugar babe and I’m the cub, a word of advice, when trying to surprise a woman don’t surprise her with sexual or disgusting things like a love heart, she’ll scream at you, don’t listen to cartoonish romance on the internet, you’ll be hated like a cartoon by women who, thinking it’s real, will probably slap you. Romance is quite an art, Fabio can’t be that desperate, I think he would be tired of it by now.