Can't you make an arguement that anything is art?

I think art is a form of self-expression by an individual. As long as the artist if pleased with their piece, the opinions of others should not matter. Art can take on many forms.

In the form of music, art could be created by “typical” instruments (voice, violins, clarinets, flutes, oboes, trumpets, trombones, tubas, bassoons, etc.,) or improvised instruments (pots and pans, silverware, plates, waterfalls, birds, etc.).

Art could take on the form of dance in structured form (ballet, pointe, hip-hop, tap, jazz, either choreographed or improvised) to people of any age going out to clubs dancing, to people at home, dancing in their underwear with the music blaring getting ready for work in the morning.

When it comes to photographs, this form of art captures a form of art captures a specific millisecond of life’s moments that the artist feels significant in their own life. For me, this moment included a time at my cousins third birthday party. My aunt and uncle invited family over for a party, but my cousin was mostly interested in gathering up the dozen balloons he had and when everyone was watching, letting them all go and watching them all fly to the ceiling and gathering them all up and doing it again.

In terms of drawings or paintings, these could take years of sketching and planning to come up with a piece that could be hung up in a museum or painted on a church ceiling. To the parents of the children I worked with over the summer, the best pieces of art they have ever seen were the pieces that took seconds to construct - macaroni glued to colorful construction paper with some carefully placed marker lines and circles.

Art could also be considered in a fashion sense. Fashion designers need to sketch designs, combine different styles, lines, shapes, and colors are all at the discretion of the designer. Hair dressers need to know how to cut straight lines and create certain dye colors - would you trust a stylist who was a beauty school dropout? Fashion is also an art form for people who decide what clothes to wear – people express themselves by what they wear. Makeup is also a way people often express themselves.

Another art form could be architecture. Buildings need to have a design plan, sketches, and blueprint all before going though the building process. If there were two hotels on adjacent corners (same prices, just to make my point) and one is the most beautiful hotel you have every seen, and the other looks like a run down shack, which hotel are you most likely to choose?

Art is also visible in the culinary industry. Do you know many people that would eat something that doesn't appeal to them (in their own personal opinion) visually? Think of cake competitions, wedding cakes, cup cakes, sweet sixteen cakes! People are willing to spend hundreds of dollars on cake that looks visually appealing that will just be eaten later. The show "Challenge" on Food Network features culinary artists competing using cake as their canvas.

Before trying to come up with a title for this blog, I thought that anything but people, plants, animals, or anything alive that is just living for the sake of living could be art. But, what about the argument of evolution vs. creationism? Not that this is my opinion, but taking a creationist perspective, isn't there a big artist out there somewhere?

-Alicia