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It is like writing a novel that is intended to offend Christians and make them irate.
It is still a novel
Same as that offensive art
Here is a really good example of something offensive. Someone used a pen, like an artist, to draw this up sign. They created it with ink using their own imagination, but is it art? I cant call THAT art.
The guy from the Honeymooners.Personally I'm of the mind that the word art has become meaningless.
When anyone can call themselves an artist and calls their latest piece of crap painting, graffiti, sculpture photo etc a work of art then we have jumped the shark
I disagree. A novel has a beginning, a middle, and an end. There is creation from nothing.
Piss jeezus was an assemblege of pre existing things.
No creation at all.
Now this is art:
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Notice how the background is blurred to focus attention on the subject. And of course the terrific use of ambient light.
Art is just symbolic or colorful expression of what's inside. To acknowledge it creatively doesn't mean you have to like what the the artist is actually expressing. There are many bands who, as a musician myself, I have to give a nod because they have good or excellent musicianship and know how to play well. But sometimes I just don't like the mood, feelings or ideas expressed. Take Chicago for example (band). What they do they do well. They are better musicians than me. But in my own repertoire I probably wouldn't cover them much even though I could. It's just that I'm not crazy about their songs. They're ok. I don't run to shut them off. I can appreciate them to a degree. But they are just not go-to music for me.
Then you get people like Neil Young who have a whiny voice and crude guitar skills....and yet I feel that the creativity and soul of the man is amazing. In fact, Neil Young is supposedly THE most covered song writer of all time, at least of the 20th Century. Because his music is simple and from the heart and inspired, another musician or band which covers him can embellish it however they want. They can make it Heavy Metal, Jazz, Disco, Country.....whatever they want.
Now this is art:
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Notice how the background is blurred to focus attention on the subject. And of course the terrific use of ambient light.
No way...no. No novelist creates "something from nothing"...no artist of any medium does. None of us are God. Novelists use words first, then character, setting and all kinds of plot devices that are very standard. You cited it in simple terms and there's nothing wrong with that.
Just because the novelist uses means that are intangible doesn't mean he "creates from nothing".
I cant properly define it, but i know it when i see it.
If I write a fantasy novel I am creating it from my imagination.
I can. Art is beauty, it is imagination, it is creativity and interpretiveness. It connects the passion of the artist's mind to the imagination of the viewer in creatively interpreting the world around us in a unique, original way that fundamental speaks to the heart saying more to the mind than any words can.
Not possible at the novel level. You are relying on advanced language for that, already having:
Letters
Words
Sentence structure, grammar
Paragraphs
And you might think you are creating an innovative world--it might even be true--but you are not original in:
character
plot
story arc
And there is nothing wrong with that. Our brains LOVE familiar patterns with some deviations.
Well, a lot more than a crucifix in a jar of piss.no it's not really.