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<h2>Is Abstract Art Art?</h2>

Yesterday my boys were drawing and my youngest brought me his latest work *(shown below)*. I looked at it with his random scribbles and color spots created by smashing his markers into the paper and I thought to myself,

> "Hey, this is pretty cool looking!"

*This got me thinking about* ***abstract art*** *and whether or not* ***it is art.***
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<h3>If you Google the question, "Is abstract art art", you will find a heated debate regarding the subject.</h3>

On the *NO* side people say abstract art is easy and requires little technical skill, thus it cannot be art. I think that there is some validity to this claim. Afterall, if my son *(a toddler of only 24 months)* can create something I find visually appealing then technical skill clearly is not a prerequisite for creating abstract art. I even created the cover image for this post in 3 minutes using Photoshop by randomly selecting colors and paint splatter brushes. ***If abstract art is so easy to create... Maybe it is not art?***

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**Unfortunately, a rebuttal to the question is difficult to form because appreciating art often requires that the viewer abandon logic and reason.**

Additionally, most viewers of art do not have a very close relationship to the visual arts, thus it is simpler to discuss the question using music - *a form of art most individuals are quite familiar with*.

Regardless of the technical abilities of the musician, I think most people would agree that music is a form of art and this is why we refer to them as artists. Heck! If I wait another 3 months I bet my 2 year old son could acquire enough knowledge of the guitar to play every Ramones song ever written. *Does this mean the Ramones and other simplistic styles of music are not art?* ***Not in my opinion.***

Technical skill, while a valuable tool for creating art, is only a part of the equation. We often like to think of artists as having some special technical abilities that us non-artists do not possess, but sometimes it is just being original or doing the right thing at the right moment in time.

Setting my ramblings aside, I wrote this post because I am really interested to hear what the Steemit community thinks about abstract art.

<h3>Is it Art? Or is it just some idiot randomly pushing paint around on the canvas?</h3>

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I leave you with some peices created by <a href="http://www.aelitaandre.com/">Aelita Andre</a>, an Australian artist who is only...

<img src="http://images5.aplus.com/uc-up/4c1cb4b4-5fca-443a-b7a5-8025e24160ba/67349a_4ab8183318c840788030f8319bc47cd0.resize_640x.jpg" />

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<h2>9 years old!</h2>