One must be art, the real question here is, why? There is no why, it is art. Brushes know that resolutely enigmatic paintings collapse reality and fiction. Inquiring minds want to know, painting brushes know that.
Quixotic : exceedingly idealistic; unrealistic and impractical, artwork-like. Nothing defines what is art because the idea of art is a very fluid concept with a liquid, witty, humorous edge, but also a touch of sadness. Pictures oscillate between reality and fiction, it's probably a mixed bag.
No experiment is perfect. Contrary to common belief, art is impossible to solve numerically.
Photo-based figure paintings are flat as a cheeky canvas, drawing from life is crispy fun.
Contemporary art challenges notions of space, perception and meaning of silliness. Now we know all of those questions are unnecessary.
For centuries, idiotic humor has been an art. Artists don't know where the edge is, or even if there is an edge, but some fear cutting edge art living on the edge with utopian ideals. What makes an academic discipline seriously important is the obscurity of the obfuscatory language its proponents employ.
Art aphorism looking for the need to touch the things it find beautiful, an artistic expression of the colored registration of the passing moment. We need theories and the art of eristic or logical disputation to sell decoratively kitsch paintings.
Because art is embedded in even the most banal objects, visual images used as metaphors in art are inexpensive (Veblen goods pay where quality is judged by price). But most paintings are not artists, and they have some ethical resistance to the idea of making every human interaction into a money transaction.
The world of the whistle-blower is a lonely one.
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