Music=Art?

chopper wrote: If you're going to say that music is art, then that must surely apply to all music, however good or bad it is. You couldn't differentiate between good or bad as it's too subjective, what you call "a bunch of riffs" would be great music to someone.

No i would never classify music as art and i wonder why people classify it as art. And i am not saying that a GOOD music is art and BAD music is not art. Im basically saying that most artists however good they may be usually never composes music to be deep but they create music just to make it sound as good as possible.

Bob Greece wrote: Would you describe all paintings as being art? I mean there are so many simplistic paintings where there is no brains involved in the painting process. It's just a few buckets of paint and take the one that looks best and then it is a painting... I mean I basically see many simplistic artists and to really describe them as ART-ists as if their paintings really had a deep meaning or something while in reality they are just trying to make the paintings that they think get them the most money... ...So when does painting go from being painting to being an artform?

Ah the diffrence between childrens drawings and modern popular art is that the modern popular artists CLAIM that they have some deep and hidden meaning in their paintings...They claim that they dont only paint to make a good painting they paint to express their feelings and to represent some kind of deeper meaning.

I mean you can make a totally black painting and CLAIM that you have some deep meaning about it and then it is ART.

Joren wrote: Music is an artform. When you create something out of your own emotion, you express yourself and you do that through a sculpture, painting, poem, composition, performance or whatever then I call that art.

Yes i agree with that...Music that is made out of people expressing their emotions or creativty is art...HOWEVER there is not everyone that composes that way.

TheProgtologist wrote: Music is definitely a legitimate form of Art

So all kinds of music including Boyzone is art?

maidenrulez wrote: BTW my definition of ART is some medium in wich you can express your creativity

Then music definitely applies

TheProgtologist wrote: If music is an artform all music must be considered,not just the ones you like and don't like.

Ah but i like boyzone  However i do not belivie they make music to express their creativty i belivie they make music to make the most money. And besides whats the point with the art-rock genre then if all music is art?