The Definition of Art
Published July 24, 2024 · 1:00 · 61,830 views
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The definition of art. Tolstoy spent 200 pages on it in What Is Art? Van spent months on a strange experiment: he retyped a work of art he knew in his bones to be a work of art, cut out each line of type with an X-Acto, mounted the lines to a gigantic sheet of paper, and redrew the drawings from the original. The experiment served its purpose. What made the work of art a work of art is that it preserved the human spirit. That's what a work of art does. One minute. One definition.
Transcript
this spirited man lives in a time when just about anything can be called Art but this can't be not everything can be
art so what the hell is Art to help him understand what is art this spirited man did an
experiment he took a work of art that he knew in his bones to be a work of art and went on a quest to determine why
this work of art was a work of art for his strange experiment this spirited man retyped this work of art then he put
some kind of adhesive on the back of the typed Pages then he cut out each line of type with an alpha he mounted the lines
of type to a gigantic sheet of paper also he redrew the drawings from the original work of art this work took months the experiment had served its
purpose what made this work of art a work of art is that it preserved the human Spirit that's what a work of art does a work of art preserves the human spirit
People Referenced
Kurt Vonnegut
Books Mentioned
- Breakfast of Champions