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Uh, whatever, man.

What's funny to me is that much of what we consider 'art' from ancient civilizations was hammered out by 'craftsmen' who worked from given templates or drawings and were no less copying an 'image' to make their object than the sculptor who made the Rocky statue.

First, define art, then tell me why this statue doesn't fit the definition. BTW, do you know that film is an art form or do you pretend that multicolored window panes (one piece I saw in the Philly museum) are art while film which is the culmination of the visual, the aural and the written is not?

do you know that film is an art form

But Rocky was not a film.

one piece I saw in the Philly museum

Additionally, that museum is not a real building.

(/sarc)

Uh, whatever, man. What's funny to me is that much of what we consider 'art' from ancient civilizations was hammered out by 'craftsmen' who worked from given templates or drawings and were no less copying an 'image' to make their object than the sculptor who made the Rocky statue. First, define art, then tell me why this statue doesn't fit the definition. BTW, do you know that film is an art form or do you pretend that multicolored window panes (one piece I saw in the Philly museum) are art while film which is the culmination of the visual, the aural and the written is not?

zzzzz--oh, sorry, dozed off there during the seventh-grade "What is art?"

Have no idea what you're babbling about after BTW. I've shot film and video so I guess you're somehow suggesting that I was saying film wasn't art, which I never suggested, but...

What exactly is your point again? Oh, right--that a promotional statue of a Hollywood star MUST be considered art. Hmm, that can't be it. That art was created by craftsmen--geez, now there's a freakin shock, you must have paid real good attention to that show on Sunday mornings where the guy paints a landscape in 22 minutes...

What was your point again? Oh, "define art"--isn't that what all those people who use NEA grants to make pornographic pictures with excrement smeared on them say?

Now I'm starting to understand your point of view. Enjoy your Mapplethorpe photos, and get back to me when you've passed that "Art Appreciation" correspondence course.