Re: oooooh controversy!

hehe.....great points to all.....I think you are all right.....I think
watercolors are watercolors and oils are oils and ascii is ascii and so on and
so on.  It is valid to say those things, but if I were to use acrylic paints
and painted an image on a t-shirt it would still be a valid peace of art even
though it would not have any function.  So with that said, this brings me to
another thought.  In art it is common knowledge that form follows function. 
If the function of an art form is to be a certain character set, certain sizes
and so on.  That should constitute a function of that particular(whatever it
maybe)  On the same hand, you have form which has been said to follow a
function.  If I were to use acrylic paints on a t-shirt and wore it all day
and then washed and dried it.....chances are the paint would peel or crack or
simply have been washed off the t-shirt.  In this case the function of using
acrylic paints are a t-shirt that most would wear wouldn't work.  The form
would be there for the art, but the function or the process of which the art
was create also caused its destruction.  Using acrylics on a t-shirt would not
work, so someone decided that they should develope new inks and a new way of
printing art on a t-shirt....like silkscreening.  Silkscreening solved the
problem of form follows function in the t-shirt biz.  BUT!  hehe  The same
could be said, if you take that same t-shirt and used acrylics to paint an
image on it and then had it framed and hung on a wall...then that is also form
following function.  The function of the art being hung on the wall. 
So.....here is my question.....In ASCII art is it going by the single rule in
art of form following function?  What is the function of ASCII art?  What is
its form?  You don't have to answer that question, because one of the posts I
just read in reply is a very good explaination of the form.....but some
explain to me the function of ascii.  How is it displayed?  For who?  What
purchase would you as an artist create ascii art?  Lets say instead of an oil
painting?  

Slim

Richard James <thi...@all.will.it> wrote:
>LGB wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 31 May 2002 20:32:30 -0000, sli...@webjaz.net (slim) wrote:
>> 
>>>I do understand, like I said before I'm still learning ANSI and ASCII....
>>>:) either way you missed my point appearantly. It doesn't matter to me if
>>>its ANSI or ASCII I guess I'm just saying art is art and just when you
>>>think you
>>>can't break the mold someone will.  I'm also saying be imaginative.  There
>>>are ways.
>> 
>> Art is art to the beholder and to the creator, but may not be art to
>> someone else. But to define a medium to display a form of art for
>> all to enjoy or view has happen in this group. A universal limited
>> character set displayed in a fix width font in a plain text document
>> from whatever background and font color one chooses to display the
>> ascii-art on his/hers screen.
>
>If I paint a white cat with watercolours is that watercolour art?
>I didn't use canvas but I did use watercolours. Maybe If I write ascii 
>characters on a page by hand that is ascii art. But I don't think using non 
>ascii on say a screen is ascii art.
>
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>Here kitty kitty.
>
>Richard :)

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