{"id":7924,"date":"2016-11-17T22:47:12","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T02:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=7924"},"modified":"2016-11-17T22:47:12","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T02:47:12","slug":"what-is-art-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2016\/11\/17\/what-is-art-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Art?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7925\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/Earth-Without-Art-cropped-300x255.jpg\" alt=\"earth-without-art-cropped\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/Earth-Without-Art-cropped-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/Earth-Without-Art-cropped.jpg 497w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What is art, you ask?<br \/>\nWell, thank you very much.<br \/>\nThis question is as important,<br \/>\nAs it is unanswerable.<\/p>\n<p>Anything can be,<br \/>\nBut nothing must be.<br \/>\nSome of it shouldn\u2019t be,<br \/>\nAnd some of what isn\u2019t, should.<\/p>\n<p>But who is to say what is art,<br \/>\nAnd what\u2019s not?<br \/>\nNobody can,<br \/>\nAnd everyone must.<\/p>\n<p>If you can\u2019t differ art,<br \/>\nFrom what\u2019s not,<br \/>\nYou can\u2019t differ the smart,<br \/>\nFrom the lot.<\/p>\n<p>In art,<\/p>\n<p>We can only be critics for ourselves,<br \/>\nBut not our own critics.<br \/>\nI mean, is this art,<br \/>\nJust because it is written in verse?<\/p>\n<p>It is up to you to decide.<br \/>\nI for myself, can\u2019t answer that question.<br \/>\nWhy?<br \/>\nBecause I to myself, have asked that same question.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Remember to be the weirdest you can possibly be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; What is art, you ask? Well, thank you very much. This question is as important, As it is unanswerable. Anything can be, But nothing must be. Some of it shouldn\u2019t be, And some of what isn\u2019t, should. But who is to say what is art, And what\u2019s not? Nobody can, And everyone must. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2185,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7926,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7924\/revisions\/7926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}