Re:Well... (Score 1)

There are two kinds of beauty in the world : natural and man-made. The man-made kind is regarded as art, the other as circumstantial perfection. There is a reason for the distinction. Like computer 'art', consider paint pictures created by cats. They have no conscious expression at all, but often happen to have a 'reactive' quality for the viewer. If a person feels that a pile of bricks communicates something to him, then it is 'art' by definition. This is the simplest point about art : it is created to express something. The subjective part comes into deciding whether a particular work is 'great' or not, but anything created to express is art. Another reason for the distinction of man-made from natural beauty, is that human psychology is constantly evolving, hence people discover new things to express. Following WW2, art took several new directions for example, as people became aware of new ways of thinking. To simplify, natural beauty is eternal ( and infinte ), whereas human art is generally on an ever changing path of expression.