PORCH PONDERINGS

What Defines Art, Anyway?

PROMPT March 12th

Imagine you had to create an art piece for a gallery or museum. What would you create?

Maybe I would incorporate a multi-media collage. Perhaps I could call upon all the crafts I’ve ever dabbled in, knitting, crochet, embroidery, photography, batik, sewing, writing, and then somehow insert some live plants.

I couldn’t look any crazier than this. Michael Landy in Great Britain took a few years to destroy all his possessions to refute consumerism. Then he took all those possessions and made an art installation. Then destroyed it. He named it ‘Break Down’.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140503015726/http://lostart.production.screenmedia...

And then I heard today about an auction for a digital only artwork - something about bits, blockchain, digital only. The masterpiece sold for about $70 million. Amazing. When I look at his ‘work of art’, I think, “I could do that!” And then I think “What crap!”. Another crazy idea of art.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/11/most-expensive-nft-ever-sold-auctions-for-over-6...