pottery and art

dantheman wrote:art often shows man's ham fisted attempt to capture nature's splendour

I agree with that, its often what I'm trying to show with my work also modern mans hamfisted attempts to capture the art of bygone civilizations

climberg64 wrote:Is nature art?

Art seems to be whatever someone decides it is these days.
Personally I don't consider an un-made bed, or an animal cut in half and pickled 'ART', but that is what we are being told these days.

Equally, people lay out leaves on a stream and call it temporary art, with only a photograph as a record that it existed.

Or perhaps the art is in my appreciating and photographing it?

Art or not, I'd rather a large photo of this on my wall than much 'so called' art.

Celtic_Fan wrote:

climberg64 wrote:Is nature art?

Art seems to be whatever someone decides it is these days.
Personally I don't consider an un-made bed, or an animal cut in half and pickled 'ART', but that is what we are being told these days.

You sound like me

Is Nature Art ? , I doubt it very much , nature is pretty much an accident in itself , it can be portrayed as art certainly , but as Turner said - sometimes nature needs a little help ,, I don't know exactly how many people there are on this planet - 7 billion or so , but their views are never going to be the same on this subject , take your pick as they say