What Can Be Art?

["John Klassen" <jaklassen2001@zzzzzzzzzzzz>]

Hello All,
Here's my drop in the bucket.

I have to agree with Dulce, Rick and Marla, so far, on this one.  I don't think that it is up to other artists to pick apart others work.  Everybody that has picked up a tool has been at some stage of developement in thier skills.  Some have achieved a greater level of developement than others. Every artist that I know has gone through embarrassing public examinations.  I have learned to grow a thick skin.

Onetime, I had a lady come to me and yell at me for portraying something that I shouldn't have.  I still have no clue what she was talking about.  I hope that I didn't ruin her day.

I can't claim to be the greatest artist in the world and pass judgement on others. So I won't.  Sometimes I see a piece that I would not create but I see some techniques that I would definitely use on my next piece.  Isn't that why artist look at other artists work? To get a sense of where they are in the grand scheme of things and to learn?

I was at the castle in Grandson,  Switzerland.  Out front, there is a statue that has been there for at least a hundred years or more.   I am looking at the picture right now and can tell you that it was not completed at all.  I have no idea what that thing could have been meant to represent, if anything.  But it's there.  The funny thing is, (while I was there, at least) that all the people that looked at it didn't say a bad word about it.

Once, someone showed me a picture of many pieces of meat hanging in a glass case.  They asked me what I thought.  I replied that I did not think this butcher understood the benefits of modern refrigeration and I probably wouldn't be buying meat for my next BBQ from him or her.

Here's to picking up some tools and giving it all you have.

John
Maker of Fine Doorstoppery for One and All