What is Art? by Caroline in Painter IX.5
I hadn't been expecting to consider such a philosophical question today but that was before I discovered that flickr had flagged my account as safe but also as NIPSA - this meant no-one would ever find my images through a public search because they weren't showing them there - not that I'm expecting flocks of people to find me - but as a great user of searches myself it seemed rather antisocial to not be contributing too.
It seemed to all ride on the fact that I hadn't marked my content as being art when it was, or photos or screenshots when it was those. I don't know when this change came in - completley passed me by! But you can set a default and then change anything that is not standard individually.
So now I know the answer - art is anything that is not a photo and not a screenshot.
Which is a great way of freeing up the inner artist to play with some completely digital dribbles of paint.
Hands up those who thought it was a test for colour blindness?
Can you see the numbers?
:-)
This is all my favourite colours, really bright and cheerful, but I can't see any numbers!
ReplyDeleteI think I can see some numbers, but I don't want to spoil the fun, so I'll email & see if I'm right!
ReplyDeleteI love your Art, Caroline. Nipsa'd, indeed! don't let the public miss out, get those photo's categorised! ;)
Does that mean my laundry drying on the downstairs rack is art? (I knew that. :)
ReplyDeleteI think I see A number - but lovely art though it is, my eyes won't let me look at it any longer to find anymore - will you fill us in later?
ReplyDeletemaybe it's got too big for its own ideals has flickr. there was a time when they only tolerated non-photographic input but I guess the numbers got too many for them to do much about it.
ReplyDeleteno i don't see any numbers, caroline, but it looks good nevertheless. :o)
love your bright cheerful blast of happiness on this cold, still-dark morning. Wind is howling outside, feeling vague, sipping coffee and waking up - and then I see your - ART. WOW. Instant smile............
ReplyDeleteJo - glad you liked the brightness! No numbers?
ReplyDeleteSuzie - yes it was annoying - especially as it took me a while to work out how to sort myself out... all done now though, and no longer NIPSA.
Andrea - is that another plug for your cafe press t shirts?
Tinker - sorry that it was too bright for you!
Ian - well its not feeling very art friendly at the moment...
Hayden - glad it added a splash of colour to your life. Thank you.
And right now I confess - there are no numbers.
NO NUMBERS?!!!!
ReplyDeletewhew. another test I didn't fail at.
I came a cropper with that right from the start - I posted up one illustration, and then forgot to get around to anything else for a couple of months, by which time flickr had pigeonholed me as non-photograph non-searchable felon! I then posted a load of photos and emailed them to get it changed, and er I never checked whether it had or not...
ReplyDeleteI thought I saw 23, but apparently not?
JN - flickr is funny - what I haven't figured yet is how altered a photo has to be to stop counting as just a slightly touched up photo to a full-blown illustration.
ReplyDeleteYou may well have seen 23 - its just I didn't put it there.