On the fringes of sanity
Art is a tautology, but this this should not prevent you trying to find it being taken for granted.
Art is a tautology, but this this should not prevent you trying to find it being taken for granted.
For the proof, it is a luxury to be understood, because artspeak is a closed system of self-referential language peppered with fanciful cloudy and mysterious words. (closed=framed)
The meaning of any situation is found in the frame within which we view the picture.
A comprehensible proof is not necessarily the shortest one, but a proof of small width. It is a nice naive concept which perhaps can be made into a rigorous theory. Art being only our ignorance of real causes, some art rules such as ideal body proportion would remain arbitrary.
Alexandre Borovik
What art has in common with logic and mathematics is that art is a tautology. The art idea and artwork are the same. Both can be appreciated as themselves without going outside the context of the gallery or the museum for verification.
Tracey Emin, Art After Philosophy
A storm of information that can quickly deluged the naive artist that has no way to organize and make sense to the images.