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My freshman comp professor, who was a conceited arrogant jerk with the morals of a tomcat (sorry, Fluffy), but otherwise an excellent teacher, kept returning throughout the year to the theme that art was “bringing order out of chaos.”
Back in the 60’s, there was a modern “artist” who would lay a large canvas in his driveway, drive through various colors of paint (oil-based–Latex hadn’t come along yet), then drive his car randomly over the canvas.
I’m not making this up; I saw him on the black-and-white telly vision in between the test patterns. No one could make that up.
His working definition of art was, I reckon, “bringing money out of chaos.”
People paid real money for his vehicular meanderings. Lots of it. I guess it had “investment value.” Sort of like Care Bears.
Then came “performance art”–sort of like the car thing, but without a permanent record.
Now comes “Twitter art.”
