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Originally Posted by bonsaial1
Where's the art?
Many ask, “Why is bonsai compared to things like painting sculpture and music”. Why, because some of the exact same things that make these arts work is the same things that make bonsai work. ..............
A lot of people think that to do artistic bonsai you first have to get your tree and tools together and sit down with a book called “Artistic Theory, and how it translates to bonsai”. Come on get real!
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Firstly, who are “many” here ? Who says that Bonsai is an artform ?
Secondly, what is art ? Do they talk about the same thing when they talk about Bonsai-art and Music-art of Sculpture-art ?
I think these 2 questions are much related to each other that I can approach to it as ONE subject. If you say “art” what do you mean by that ? I’m sure that we cannot talk about art as something that everybody all agree with. Is art much the same as good design ? Is art something beyond or after the intellect ? Is art the result of going beyond craftmanship, or are they just the same ? Is art (just) another kind of communication like talking and writing ? Is art everything that are beautifull and made by (wo)men ? Is art something that revealing, looking to something with other eyes ? ….. this list can go on and on. Art is maybe a word in the same category as God. Try to define it: you can’t. Try to analyse it: you can’t. Highly abstract. One thing is sure: art is a most respectable word.
By the way, someone tells me that in the East, people don’t talk about art and other abstract subjects. They have the word art, but tend not to talk deeply about it. They don’t talk about culture, too. In the West, we analyse almost everything, even God. Back to the point again:
When art is considered by “many” as a highly respectable thing, even beyond intellect as they say, than I can imagine that many Bonsai freaks like to put Bonsai in the high regions of the respect ladder. Critici would try to argue with it, of course. Among these critici there are 2 people in my life: my father and one of my best friends. My father said “Bonsai is not functional, not necessary”. My friend says “Bonsai is ugly, mainly for the tree itself”. I’m a Bonsai freak, meaning that I love it. But in some way, I can live with these 2 critics. Not because I want to keep good relations with them, but because I can take a step backward from my Bonsai, and from that place there are many more acceptable points of views.
Simpleton, do you think that musicians take a good book, grasp a guitar, sit down and learning to make artistic music ? Of course not! In many artforms, learning means often doing. “Many” know this already.