In Art is everything acceptable?

What borders do we have today?We kill for many reasons, we molest and abuse for ideas that many times are as abstract as our art, we are borderless – therefore art is borderless. Isn’t war a form of art? What about a person who view himself as an artist and in the process murders or rapes? So there are no borders but there may be “destinations” we will chose never to traverse, if you find a form of art offending do not support it.

pretty much anything is acceptable as art as long as it has a point or a message you are trying to emitt

This is a very good question regarding all of the arts. Is a toilet bowl in the middle of a room, with rocks around it art? (just something I came up with...). On the one hand there is a notion in the artistic world that we must continue to reinvent ourselves and therefore artists are expected to try and come up with new things that no one has ever seen before. On the other hand one must ask himself: "Is there a limit?". There is no clear answer but the one sure thing is that art is completely subjective, and hence, today, practically anything can be considered art. All we can do is give our opinion about it.

Sometimes art is absract, like our thoughts. Just like the author, the artist is dead, and art is there for our interpretation. Going to far, crossing borders, etc, is just a matter of interpretation, I think.

I sympathise with Shima. It strikes me that much that passes for art is either a total con. trick or the work of someone who perceives that he or she can only gain funds or achieve some fame by pushing the boundaries as far as they can get away with it. The trouble is that viewers are taken in, and thus a cult is built round that so-called artist, who often uses sociological tripe to make it all sound respectable.  It's the Emperor's clothes syndrome; you feel you dare not criticise out of fear of being regarded as - in my case a reactionary old codger!

Art is all about making a statement.  Censorship still happens, yes.  But many a thing can be said, and many different interpretations can be had from a single piece of art.  A thousand words cannot fully encompass what one wants to share with the world sometimes- and the full beauty of art is that it allows that effective communication to happen.

while yes, there will be times where I won't care for someone's work, that's everyone and everything.

what i love about art is the things that can be said without saying anything at all.   revel in the spaces in between.

No, I do not believe that everything is acceptable. Art is a fickle cultural entity, however, and what often most think ridiculous and hate, others love. Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. There is some great art that has intrinsic value to mankind and gives much pleasure and there is junk that a few consider art, that is just positively trash.

Art is too subjective to place boundries around it, one of the reasons it is such a special medium. Andy Warhol said it best; "Art is whatever you can get away with." Though, there are many art critics and laypeople who feel qualified to place limits on art...I do not think art can be defined except through the eyes of the beholder.