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The Sunday Challenge: 'Art'.

What is art? I have thought about that all week. For me it's the splash of green on the petals of a snowdrop, nacre on the inside of a shell, the shape of a snowflake, the logarithmic spiral of a snail shell, the ever changing pattern of clouds and waves. The list could go on for ever.

Whatever art is, humankind has always endeavoured to capture the essence of it. We admire cave paintings, the work of the great masters, sculpture, architecture etc,

The one thing we all have in common is that we enjoy art in all its various guises. One can see the pleasure and contentment on Mary's face as she potters about in her 'garden shed', totally absorbed in her work.

Maybe art is whatever one considers it to be.

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 Steve Bucknell
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I like this Ad Reinhardt quote: "Art is everything. Everything else is everything else."
Suitably Delphic, I think.

Then again, I think most art is on a continuum from the Delphic ( inspiring, but sometimes misleading, always open to interpretation) to the banal--pretty, but sugary and unsatisfying. I like both... But nothing beats the thrill of going to Delphi...What a view!

Even in the dark!
9 years ago. Edited 9 years ago.
 Amelia
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Thank you for that lovely compliment, Luc. Mary will be happy if she reads it.
9 years ago.
 Amelia
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I love your compliment here, Chris. Mary is preparing for an exhibition of her her work in Oswestry, a local town on the Welsh borders. She entered a competition last year and, according to the judges, didn't win, but her work was the people's favourite so she won a personal exhibition. I look forward to seeing all her work.
9 years ago.
 Amelia
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Thank you, Gillian. I thought thus would be an easy challenge, but I really had to think about the interpretation.
9 years ago.
 Amelia
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According to Mary, everyone is an artist, Paul. Get out your pencils, charcoal, chalk - whatever you like and have a go. It's very relaxing. I spent yesterday afternoon painting. The result should go straight into the bin - but I'm keeping it. :-))
9 years ago.

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