What is Art For?

Why do we create Art?

I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o'er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd,A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shineAnd twinkle on the milky way,They stretched in never-ending lineAlong the margin of a bay:Ten thousand saw I at a glance,Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but theyOut-did the sparkling waves in glee:A poet could not but be gay,In such a jocund company:I gazed---and gazed---but little thoughtWhat wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lieIn vacant or in pensive mood,They flash upon that inward eyeWhich is the bliss of solitude;And then my heart with pleasure fills,And dances with the daffodils.

What is Art For?

What is Art?

Leeds 13

• A bunch of Leeds Uni students go to Spain and take pictures of themselves on a beach, beside the pool and submit it as Art

• http://www.leeds.ac.uk/fine_art/arch/show/1998/goingplaces/index_frame.html

• Was this Art?

What is Art?

Which would you classify as art?You must all agree?

• Pottery• Manufactured pots and pans• Ballet• Gymnastics• Soccer• The grand Canyon• A holiday snap of the grand Canyon• A painting of the grand Canyon• A beautiful face

Which would you classify as art?You must all agree?

• A rock that happens to resemble a face• A child’s drawing of a face• An artist’s drawing of a face done in the naive style of a

child• A caricature• Opera• Rap Music• A piece of music generated by a computer• Bird song• The Mona Lisa

Which would you classify as art?You must all agree?

• A copy of the Mona Lisa with a moustache and beard added• Hamlet• A TV soap opera• A nursery rhyme• A joke• A man dripping paint randomly on a canvas• Flower arranging• Flowers growing in a field• A bucket and mop left in an art gallery by a cleaner• A bucket and mop left in an art gallery by an artist• A meal made by a famous chef