Connor Creagan

What Is Art?
I'll tell you what art "is", to me. To me, Art is something that makes you feel or think. It doesn't have to be incredibly expressive, and it doesn't have to be so modern that it's just a block, Art, to me, just has to make me think. Therefore, with that said, Art is everything! A tree, a painting, a curtain, a person. Everything. However, I believe there are different levels to Art, building/creating a Spectrum of Art, a personal and individual spectrum, specific, original, and unique to each person, a snow flake. If you don't like a work of Art, it is not BAD, Art is never BAD, it's just on a different level of the Spectrum that is hard for you to appreciate. However, regardless, it DOES make you feel. It makes you think. For example, you may feel angry that that work of Art was created and being hung in the Museum of Modern Art, you think about the artist themselves. I find it amazing when a person experiences anger or frustration over a work of Art, to think that a human being could become so upset at canvas or sculpture or anything else. Who knows, maybe it was the artist's intention to make people angry. How intriguing.

Anyways, I also believe that too often people think more about the product than the process, which is just as big a part as the medium used to create the work. The thought process of the artist (and humans in general) is amazing. If only there were some way to capture what the artist was thinking as he or she created their work. It's true, there are often works of Art that were fueled by a less-deep thought process than others, but isn't that just another matter of an Individual Spectrum? I'm not trying to claim that I'm a genius by writing all this for everyone to see, I would just like to put on display my theory. Now, after all that, if you feel that there is any truth to what I have written above, here is a new question, "What Isn't Art?"
Note: If you disagree that is fine. Your Spectrum of Thought is just far different than mine, which is marvelous.