How would you invent a new art form?
By Wanderlaugh
@Wanderlaugh (1622)
Australia
February 2, 2007 4:53am CST
The arts are endless. Music is infinite,graphic art is infinite, writing is a result of the eternal Big Bang of language and thought. Dance is the use of people as instruments and medium.
So to qualify, a new art form needs to be in a new medium, able to express ideas in a new way.
Some say genetics is the coming art form. Gene art, so far is largely decorative, but what would you be trying to express?
What about a new physical medium? Designing structures or concepts out of electromagnetic fields that can make things nothing else can produce?
What about people as a medium? A collage of new expressions?
Now- another question: who influence whom, the artist or the medium?
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4 responses
@craftwave (1338)
• United States
6 Feb 07
You could also consider food as an art form. My daughters would alsways see what they could make from their leftovers in a resturante. I have been treated to a scene of a gravyard complete with headstones and crosses all made out of food, plu various other scenes as well. And it was 3D too. Oh yeah I suppose the arrangement of food on a plate could also be called art.
@craftwave (1338)
• United States
6 Feb 07
My mother made floating discs out of pancakes. To this day we are not sure how she managed it. They were inedible so it might as well be called art.
@Wanderlaugh (1622)
• Australia
6 Feb 07
Yes it can. I discovered while "not making" Australian bush bread called damper that if you allow SR flour to set, you get something as hard as cement. I made something which was going to be the intro scene to Waltzing Matilda, but I ran out of flour... You can make coolibah trees out of parsley. You'd get more shade under the parsley, one of the jokes in Matilda
@Qaeyious (2357)
• United States
8 Feb 07
Food presentation is important in fine restaurants. Food should not just be dumped on a plate, but presented to the diner as a part of the experience.
Most sushi restaurants I visit are very good in this regard, blending the colors in spiral patterns, arranging picked ginger into something that looks like a rose bloom, cutting lemon wedges in such a way it makes a little animal. There's a place that serves a dragon roll, and they make it look like a dragon.
I used to eat the parsley when it was served with my order. I did that at a steak house years ago and found it to be plastic. It was only there for the presentation.
@deusdiabolus (41)
• United States
8 Feb 07
The new art forms will be a result of fusing existing art forms and methods in creative ways, or recycling existing materials. An example would be the emerging trend of reverse graffiti - making art on dirty or heavily-tagged buildings by cleaning through it. Another example would be clothing and handbags made from recycled rubber tires and license plates.
@raredog (743)
• Philippines
3 Feb 07
In my case, I would be using digital arts medium, I know it's not new, but what the heck, it's what I know right now.
@Wanderlaugh (1622)
• Australia
4 Feb 07
Digital art has hardly begun. I've found that it's a lot more flexible, and I'm now using scans, photography, and digital together, with no problems except the odd bit of formatting.
