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June 13, 2006
Quarter Finals: Art vs Technique
What is Art ? Yes indeed, that's the first question to be answered after having a full stomach, isn't it !
I had a drawing teacher who I very much liked (in an innocent, good and orthodox way), and he once said "A masterpiece is a great idea, beautifully done". Most of the time, I used to think, having great ideas was the ultimate goal, but then, if those ideas are not put into practice well enough, then what's their point ?
Now, if you just have the technique to do something, let it be carpenting, playing music or painting, it's not art yet, until you incorporate some cool ideas into it. I don't personally consider a good guitar player an artist if he can just play it real fast, without making good tunes out of it. On the other hand, if someone can spit beautifully in some interesting way, that can be considered as art. Technique comes to help an idea be beautifully done, but just by itself, it doesn't have any aritistic value. Of course the border line is quite unclear and vague and sometimes it's hard to judge if something's art or just good technique.
Now, what Brazil football team does, is not a sport, but rather a form of art, no matter what the score, you enjoy watching its beauty, but Germany only has the technique. Or what Keyvan Saket plays, is not artistic Tar, but rather great technique with no spirit. On the other hand, Joe Satriani is an artist.
Posted by masoud at June 13, 2006 08:57 PM