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The best kind of art...

...is the kind that inspires people to make their own art, either in their own minds or out into our world.  
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...is the most beautiful art.  
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...is art that challenges the limits of what art is.  
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...is work of profound meaning.  
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...is something that tells a great story or features an interesting character.  
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...cannot be quantified under just one category. There are many kinds of "best art".  
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I don't know!  
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Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 2:12 am Reply with quote
RealPerson Joined: 05 Oct 2009 Posts: 49 Location: mountain view
Can't say much about what is or isn't art or what is "best", but my favorite art is something insightful and original, something thought-provoking or that makes me see things in a novel way.

Can't remember a lot either, but I remember this piece by Félix González-Torres:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9lix_Gonz%C3%A1lez-Torres
It is literally a pile of candy in a corner of a museum that viewers are invited to eat. The museum replenishes them regularly. Its meaning is open to interpretation, but I liked how it's the simplest idea yet virtually immortal and irreproducible at the same time.
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