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Originally Posted by nicfit
Words everywhere, on a wall, on the sidewalk, on an ad, on a piece of paper can be striking. That does not mean that those can be considered "art", but rather that, quite obviously, words have power.
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My feelings exactly. They can pack a wild punch, but that doesn't mean they are art.
And as far as Yoko Ono goes, a lot of her "word art" had something else involved, like having to climb a ladder to see a small print of the word "love." But that doesn't mean the word "love" is art: she made something out of it. It goes without saying that if she had painted the word on a canvas, it would carry little weight. Unfortunately now we have a million artists who wants to be like all of the 1070's-New York-Avante Garde-Fluxus artists, but who don't have the same ideas and can't pull it off the same. Art is such a reflection of the artists entire life and background that if your goal was to actually copy another artists style (which, of course, should never be a true artist's goal) then you would essentially have to also live the same life that they have. It can't, and more importantly, shouldn't be done.