What is Art?

  There are two orders of Art.

            1^st order Art is what exists. Everything exists. Everything is Art. Everywhere is Art. I am Art, my life is Art, the temporal rod of existence is itself an installation piece at which to marvel. Art Is created passively by existence. In this way all things are Art.

            2^nd order Art is the minded art. Photographs, paintings, Jesus, etc; anything which the artist gives existence to by conscious action. 2^nd order Art is what surrealism is chiefly concerned with. We all live Art, though all are not aware of it. 2^nd order art (which I shall now refer to as just as art) is art we must experience through others. Others can experience art through us. Surrealism seeks to show by way of art what art is.

            Art is man’s device by which he creates reality. Art creates its own reality and confirms the one that we experience. The artistic realm is where we find the nuances of the rough existence we experience first hand. Second hand experience is less artificial, it is realer in substance because it is not created by our mind, which we can never trust. What is real is what is depicted by art. The artist chooses what to reify in his work and by doing so makes reality concrete. When an artist makes enough things concrete, structure develops. The photographic negative of reality must be projected, expanded, and developed onto the photo paper of existence. Images confirm what exists by being a testament to their existence. Sontag describes how photography does this. 

            All things tend to the infinitely large or the infinitely small. Eventually there is void, in the void there is art. Art is the void and becomes existence itself because the void is all things and it is nothing. Art is therefore everything and it is nothing.  

  

           In the end there will only be art.