What is art? (I finally got around to the first assignment)

1. In your sketchbook, make or describe something (or choose a work by another artist) that stands for what you think art really should be in your perfect world—if art was daring, bold, unique and special, if it was community-building or affirming, if it made the world a better place or turned the world on its head. Here, you get to decide.

Ok, I can't do just one thing of what I think art is. I just can't. So I will show some various examples from different types of what I think of as art:

First example actually comes from a tv show, Top Chef. http://www.bravotv.com/top-chef These chefs are truly artists creating art in my opinion. 

Another tv show that I watch that show cases some amazing art is called Face Off. http://www.syfy.com/faceoff These people are makeup artists that also do a little prop fabrication that create characters for the movie and television industry. All I can say is, WOW!

Then of course, there are the authors and illustrators for books, comics, anime, and graphic novels. The visual aspects as well as the written word, all to me are fundamentally art. There are so many other things that I also consider art. I suppose for me the main thing about art is it is a creation that someone made that grabs my attention, it makes me stop and think WOW! (in a good way).

1. Then, make or describe something (or choose a work by another artist) that stands for what you think people in the world think art should be—because a teacher or expert told you that’s what art is, or because that’s what you think “good art" is, or because you think this is what the art market wants, etc.

You know what. I'm not going to do this part. I think it is purposely divisive in the sense that "what I think is art is art, what you think is art is not, or is less than art or whatever". I don't feel like playing that game. It's all our own individual perception anyway and everyone perceives how they perceive, and who am I to say, "Oh, that's not art" to someone. So I'm just going to share what I think is art and I am not going to assume or judge what other people think is art.