[MD] Defining Art (was Churning Point)

[Heather Perella]

Platt,
     I guess my question was trying to delve into your
opinion of art.  You said earlier as follows:

     I believe this was Arlo asking you: "Also, for
the aboriginals (and many westerners as Khaled, I
think, pointed out) who consider digiderooing "art",
do you think they are indiscriminatory? Primative?
Uneducated? What?"

     You answered:  "Primitive and uneducated."
                  Wed Feb 15 09:01:09 PST 2006

     Therefore I was revolving my question around this
exchange.  Is primitive and uneducated high quality or
low quality art?  Or could this art also be percieved
as very freedom oriented, because it does not rely
upon what other people dogmatize or patternize as the
mold art needs to fit within, as opposed to a more
individualized art that is from the heart?  Yet, I do
wonder how much freedom is involved in digiderooing,
because of the ancestral songs that maybe are learned,
yet, how much is also from the heart, individualized? 

     The fine line seems to be between teacher and
student.  At least that is where this train of thought
is going, or I am taking it.  Why might I say this? 
Well, how much influence does a teacher order upon the
art student, and how much freedom is granted to the
art student in any realm of art?  Would that not
influence the amount of artistic freedom, thus,
creativity the art student has, even if it is in a
culture that plays the digiderooing or one that
teaches the violin?

SA

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