art, n. This word has no definition.
The word "art" does not designate the concept of a mere eventuality; it is a concept of rank.
Art is what everyone knows it is.
ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape as "One day a wag - what would the wretch be at? Shifted a letter of the cipher RAT, And said it was a god's name! . . ."
A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from peoples to whom the very idea of art meant nothing.
In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking about what art can be and how art is made.
There is no such thing as abstract art, or else all art is abstract, which amounts to the same thing. Abstract art no more exists than does curved art yellow art or green art.
For me, art is such a wide concept - anything can be art.
Can works be made which are not 'of art'?
For me, art has to have two things to really blow me away: a strong concept and drama.
