Is this an ART?

General Discussion General Modeling Discussion
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When is a sheep chopped in half art?

When its the work of Damian Hurst.

Yet when your local butcher does it, he’s just being a butcher.

Go figure.

Models in themselves are not art, they are a resonse to a creative desire. It is that creative desire, and the refusal to accept formal boundaries that leeds to art, whatever it’s form

Karl

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In my forty years as an artist I have seen some very poor art, that has been given much praise.
Some of this so called poor art makes me sick, and I know for a fact that the artist or so called artist is only trying to get his or her name out into the media.
For many of the so called artist and the work the produce it’s only a game of look at me; that 15 min of fame.
If you want to call model building a hobby or art its your money and your time.
For me it’s an extension of my forty years of being an artist. It’s now a very big part of my life. I have what I wanted to do for so many years,it’s learning and understanding all aspects of model building.
I can honesty say that many times that forty years as an artist help me to solve a huge model building problem.
It’s all in ones attitudes of ones own work, art or hobby.

Dales Model Art
http://community.webshots.com/user/dales_model_art

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Is model building an art? What is truth? What is beauty?

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Hey look, if an image of Jesus in a jar of urine[:0] or the perversities of Maplethorpe[V] can be called art by the “cultural elite” then perhaps I would rather they not call my work art. I don’t want the praise of someone who admires that garbage. But when the “experts” start giving true art the recognition it deserves, I have no doubt that they would include our kind of work in the definition of fine art. After all, doesn’t art imitate life? Don’t our models imitate their prototypes?[^]

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Art is in the eye of the beholder. -so I’ve been told. If you look at something and it inspires you or creates some form of emotion, good or bad it is technically considered art. To the untrained eye our stuff may look like toys but for a select few it is truly considered to be an art form.

Place a well built 1/48 scale F-4 in front of a Vietnam Vet and tell me that it dosen’t create an emotion.

-fish

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Just thought I’d pass this on: Webster’s New World Dictionary, 3rd College Edition (1988), defines art as:

  1. Human ability to make things; creativity of man as distinguished from the world of nature
  2. skill; craftmanship
    And I especially like Number 6:
  3. Any branch of creative work, especially painting, drawing, or work in any other graphic or plastic medium
    Is model building an art form? You bet it is, and regardless of whether or not it evokes some sort of emotional response–at least sort of. I build simply to satisfy a creative urge to replicate something that I enjoy looking at. I guess some may consider it strange, but I don’t build a Mustang, Marder or Missouri because of its historical significance, necessarily, but because I like the lines, the angles and the overall design, as well as the authority and power conveyed within those lines. I can’t draw or paint on a canvas (About the only things I do draw are gnats, flies and mosquitoes.); I can’t sculpt clay or marble, but I can take the media of metal, resin, and styrene and with a little work make something that evokes the emotions of contentment and satisfaction. Once again, Webster is correct.
    Gip Winecoff