jerryhankins

Is It Art?    What is Art?    Is It Good ART?    And Who are you to Say So?

"it's art when it looks as if I know what I'm doing and when doing it makes me feel good. It's like a good revolution…that makes people feel good…I don't think 10 people in a room talking about art could agree about whether something is good or bad art. I think it's good when I can put myself into another artist's shoes, and wish I could have done that, or could see myself doing it." RICHARD PRINCE, Artist

"If it's not visual and it's not visceral and it's not communicative,it's not a work of art."         KARL KATZ, Executive Director of Muse Film and Television

"I know art when I see it." WILLIAM RUBIN,  Director emeritus, Museum of Modern Art

"I think that art is the ability to show and tell what it means to be alive. It can powerfully visualize, textualize and/or musicalize your experience of the world, and there are a million ways to do it." BARBARA KRUGER, Artist

"Something is a work of art when it has filled its role as therapy for the artist. I don't care about the audience. I'm not working for the audience. The audience is welcome to take what they can." LOUISE BOURGEOIS, Artist

There is the awareness of the art as the artist expresses their emotions, and then there is art as it is perceived by the viewer, even subconsciously.  This causes different emotions, depending on the state of the viewer.  One can become happy with an immediate smile and their day is lightened. Another can be challenged, and put deep in thought. Still, it can be disturbing and cause outbreaks of pyromania. When art makes me want to try a new style and wonder at the work before me, that is great art…me