What is art?

What I have to say first is I have no talent for art. Seriously, my painting, singing, playing musical instalments are really awkward. Those must be evaluated at less than a cent. Why do I write about art? Visiting the art gallery in Christchurch gave me many awareness to what art is. I have also rights to express my opinion about art though I'm not a skilful painter.




In my opinion, art is the opposite concept of "nature". Nature is created not by human but invisible and unknown power like god. It obey the perfect and effective rules. I don't have a religion. However, when I am asked "who made this universe and its perfect rules?", my answer is "god." I don't have so much knowledge about science. As far as I know, god is the most persuadable answer for me. What we shouldn't forget is that human being has also been a part of the nature. Our ancestors had been obeying the rules of nature and have been existing as a part of it.




However, as they evolves to human being,  they have reached the stage of creator. We human generate a something new in this world by ourselves. I think this must be art. In this point of view, everything human made is worth to be called art. That is, it always stands by this question: what can human create? Arts include not only paintings or sculptures but also buildings or any products like car.




Interesting is that the criterion to evaluate art depends on people and age. Some people think more abstract painting. On the contrast, others prefer just watching cars collection. In Renaissance, paintings like a photograph tend to be highly evaluated, while more uniqueness or creativity have been praised nowadays.




Art can also be seen as challenge to overcome the limit of language. We usually assume we see this world completely but we don't. We just get to know the world only through languages. If we use different languages, we capture the world differently.  Art works, especially modern ones, cannot describe the words because those are beyond the language. What we have to do is just to watch those and fell something unknown.




To sum up, art works are all artificial things. It depends on people which kind of art is fascinating or worth to pay. The most important is that we enjoy it as it is. If you feel something unknown, that is the one the artists want to tell you.




Below are pictures taken in gallery in Christchurch. Those are totally unknown for me.

Don't think, feel!

The beard made of bubble - unique!

Seriously, what's this?