PhilosophyOfArt

 

“I make art therefore I am an artist.”

“You are an opinion-entrenched biological machine programmed with and performing a skilled function. But are you an artist?”

We must define: What is an ‘artist’. 

“Someone who makes art.” 

Art theory of the 19th and 20th century has questioned ‘what is art’ as a necessary part of becoming and of being an artist. 

I got my dog to walk through paint trays and then splash and tread the paint onto a canvas. Is it art? Is my dog an artist? 

“Does a dog have Buddha consciousness?” 

Anyone who lives with animals will tell you animals do have Buddha consciousness. 

The dog is an artist. 

The forest drops twigs and leafs into recognisable patterns, not at random. Many studies have verified this. The forest has Buddha consciousness. The forest is an artist. 

Does an AI generator drop pixels into recognisable patterns, not at random? The machine has Buddha consciousness. It is the same principle. The machine is selective processes of electronic pulses. The human brain is selective processes of electronic pulses. The forest is selective process of electronic pulses. 

Why do we discern any difference? Why would we elect one rule for one and not for another when it is at some fundamental level the same thing? Energy flowing in patterns which conform to some structured, mathematically identifiable code. 

“Art is the mind set free.”

We return to the questions asked by artists; 

“What is the purpose of art?” 

“What is art?”

Art is in the eye (interpreted by the mind) of the beholder (who necessarily is individual therefore has an individual interpretation of and relationship with any object or process of art).

Is art the object or the process? 

What purpose has the object if nobody observes it? 

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AI art generator prompt:
"An artist makes a work of art which does not look like art"