Art Not Art: autobiographies in paint and stone.
Basilica of the Holy Blood in Bruges, The Trinity, fresco above the high altar | René de Cramer Wikipedia H/T David Clayton The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. - Michelangelo Gart is the term that a former philosophy professor of mine imparted to us students to describe something pretending to be art. Technically speaking, there is no such thing as bad art. Art, by definition, describes something - is something - that belongs in the category of excellence and the sublime. Art epitomizes the best of something. Art embodies the true, the good and the beautiful. Gart, on the other hand, is something less than art. A determination of artistic merit does not depend on the popularity of a thing. Artistic merit is determined by the degree to which something epitomizes the true, the good and the beautiful. Merit can be intuited and/or deduced. One does not necessarily need a university degree to be able to recognize art. A trained intellect corrupted by attachmen...