Broadening our discussion on the top of "What is art?" Lucian Freud is a good choice. He mostly painted still lifes of real people, not models, with oils and brush. He paid much attention to detail of everything about the person, especially the flaws. But other than the the wrinkles, muscles, veins, hair, fat, sagging, protruding ears or nose etc.
In Gaz Freud picked a little bit of a different person to paint in that it seems like the guy is a farmer or cowboy of sorts, yet he has a peace symbol and an # symbol on his shirt. This is a little strange since its conflicting with southwest American style with Asian and math symbols. Maybe just a put together shirt or what the guy is about.. who knows?
Other than that we see he emphasizes his long face, his nose, lips and teeth in detail and draws out the details of his character even though his brush strokes are wishy washy-like.
To many art needs to be something of visual, emotional or spiritual tantalization and pleasure. Now, Freud's works aren't so much easy on the eye to say, however they seem skillful and intricate. Can art be something as simple as attention to some detail that the artist favors? Something about the past or about society? Perhaps something about almost nothing at all. These questions are up in the air mostly but one thing is for sure is that anything an even "somewhat known" artist does it catches the eye of a certain crowd or a certain taste or liking of someone. This is the main ideal.. asking this one simple question of "What is art?" isn't very handy considering the right way to me is never asking that way but directing it at one person and asking, "What is are to you?"
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