Poetry and why it fails

[Deleted member]

Delphiki, I've known from the beginning that my argument is stupid as you can't argue something like this and well..win. I felt like ranting and having some fun. Not surprisingly, I got taken seriously. I'm not johning or admitting defeat, it's just I've known from the beginning that someone could take the knowledge of my personal views (like how I adore film) and say that film fails and is easy to do. And then we'd debate some aesthetics.

I went about it the wrong way, so maybe someone, or me, should make a thread named "What is art."

But hey, I'll keep it up.

 

[Wikipedia]

Wow, perfect, that was going to be my thread idea for the temp debaters. It was quite a controversial question brought up by my art history teacher, who defines art? The artist, the expert, or the viewer?