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campbell.macdonald's avatar

I like this. But I also define art as things that make you change your way of thinking. Not sure if all twitch streamers qualify (neither do all sculptors, to be clear)

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Sean Byrnes's avatar

We can all have our different definitions of art! Is a violist that plays Mozart an artist? They are playing a song anyone can play, they haven't written music. But, in the way they choose to play they create something new. Same thing here.

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Alex A.'s avatar

All this relativism. Yo Yo Ma and Itzakh Perlman will be sorry to know they could have skipped learning all those тАЬsongsтАЭ that anyone can play. Now you can be a great artist by twitch streaming.

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Sean Byrnes's avatar

Art is the domain of relativism since the meaning exists with personal preferences. My personal opinion is that performance art (including music) is art, just like this streamer is creating art. I choose not to believe art has to fit classical definitions.

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Alex A.'s avatar

It is also the realm of hierarchy. It is not entirely subjective.

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Sean Byrnes's avatar

That itself is subjective! Art is slippery that way.

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Alex A.'s avatar

ItтАЩs not. A Renaissance painting and a tik tok edit are not a matter of тАЬwell theyтАЩre both art so itтАЩs really up to you what you like best!тАЭ One is a mastered and refined approach to the sublime and the other is ephemeral slop. ItтАЩs not doing anyone any favors to dissolve the distance between them. ItтАЩs making us all dumber and killing our understanding of aesthetics.

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Sean Byrnes's avatar

That's your opinion and you're welcome to it, just like we are all welcome to our own definitions of art. And we're all welcome to have those change over time!

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Alex A.'s avatar

YouтАЩre welcome to be of the opinion that 2+2=5 too. ItтАЩs just incorrect.

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Sean Byrnes's avatar

Ah, the insults. You'll forgive me if I dismiss everything else you say.

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Alex A.'s avatar

YouтАЩve done that since the beginning of this conversation but no insults were intended from my end. Have a great afternoon.

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