bonsaiTALK Community - View Single Post - Bonsai isn't art- defined.

You can look at an empty canvas and see the painting. You can look at the landscape and recreate it in miniature form with exacting precision onto the empty canvas. This is called art. It is also called photography. To be art, according to the original funding boards information, something new needs to have been created from the landscape. So the "artist" paints a sunset where there isn't one.

A bonsai enthusiast, takes a seed (insert any other source material here) his/her canvas, and sees the ancient tree in the field and recreates onto from his/her canvas. is tools aren't the brush, and the little scraper thingy whose name escapes me, it is the wire and knob cutters that apply the art medium to its canvas. The medium is the soil, air and water that are applied to the canvas to allow it to take form.

What the original writer doesn't get, and they never will is that the tree itself is also the canvas, the tools and the medium nd it's alive.

Much like a well crafted aquarium is an artwork, ever changing ever amazing but no less an artwork.

Show me two bonsai trees (or any two trees for that matter) that are identical and I'll show you two trees that no longer fit into the original writers definition of art.

YET! they will argue that a model plastic bonsai is a form of art... go figure

10-Dec-2007	#18
GrumbleGuts bonsaiTALK Adept Join Date: Jan-2005 Location: Tully Country: Australia USDA Zone: ? AHS Heat Zone: Trop Posts: 245	You can look at an empty canvas and see the painting. You can look at the landscape and recreate it in miniature form with exacting precision onto the empty canvas. This is called art. It is also called photography. To be art, according to the original funding boards information, something new needs to have been created from the landscape. So the "artist" paints a sunset where there isn't one. A bonsai enthusiast, takes a seed (insert any other source material here) his/her canvas, and sees the ancient tree in the field and recreates onto from his/her canvas. is tools aren't the brush, and the little scraper thingy whose name escapes me, it is the wire and knob cutters that apply the art medium to its canvas. The medium is the soil, air and water that are applied to the canvas to allow it to take form. What the original writer doesn't get, and they never will is that the tree itself is also the canvas, the tools and the medium nd it's alive. Much like a well crafted aquarium is an artwork, ever changing ever amazing but no less an artwork. Show me two bonsai trees (or any two trees for that matter) that are identical and I'll show you two trees that no longer fit into the original writers definition of art. YET! they will argue that a model plastic bonsai is a form of art... go figure __________________ When I battle with water bombs I freeze them first.