What is art? (Patreon)

As you probably know I am shadowbanned on instagram again and I am looking for a new additional platform. That's when I came across Reddit. One of my photo did there pretty well (over 1.3 milion views, which is huge for me) but today not about that.

I got there a comment. Something along the lines of "I never liked art but now it might change". It made me think about it for a whole day. Because, well, what is art?

For me art is in our everyday lives. In the composition of colors and in shapes. In the lights and in the shadows. It's in every bird that's chirping in Spring and in every thunder during a storm. For me nature is art and that's what I am trying to show in my photography.

I remember when I used to say the exact same thing as the person in the comment: "I hate art. I don't understand it and I probably never will" but that's bullshit. What I meant is that I don't like modern art. You know - these weird paintings that a child could paint and a weird sculptures or instalations that look shitty and are supposed to have this big meaning and talk about important things and everyone pretends to understand that. I never did. First I was ashamed of it because I felt stupid and uncultured but now I realised that there's everything for everyone and people are different. There's nothing to be ashamed of. I am really particular about what I like and what I don't.

Someone also said that art is subjective and I can't say if this kind of nudity in photography is vulgar (only made for a sexual reason and without any artistic idea behind it) and this kind is not sexual but rather artistic. And I partially agree on that. Art is subjective but also let's be honest. In most cases it's pretty easy to spot the difference.

I meant to write this post a long time ago but I finally got the courage to do so. I'd also love to know what you think about all of this? Do you agree or don't? It would be interesting to know your point of view.

Love, Erinthul.