Copying = Plagiarism?I've known since the beginning of the year that this is not a question with a straight answer; it has about as much grey area as a film from the 1920's. The Venn diagram between copying and plagiarism looks more like one circle than two. What it comes down to is one's definition of copying, which can be anything from being inspired by something to creating a faithful replica. If your definition is the former, then if copying was plagiarism, just about anybody who has ever made anything ever would be a plagiarist. If it's the latter, then that still technically wouldn't be plagiarism unless you said the idea was yours. The definition of plagiarism, after all, is "the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own." Essentially, stealing with minimum modification to the original. I think that is where the line is drawn amid the fuzziness between copying and plagiarism: modification to the original. Reasons artist use observationAgain, this answer is rather similar to what it was at the beginning of the semester:
If there is some sort of deeper meaning here I'm missing it. What is the point of this class?You'll notice, apart from this one, all my answers have been essentially the same throughout the semester. That is because art class is not the only time I think about topics such as these. I can't say my opinions on complex subjects like plagiarism and the definition on art have changed much in the past few months, but I can nevertheless say that this class has had an impact on me. Because, tell you what, that class was full of people several times more skilled than me. Before I was in this class, I thought I drew some really good pictures, and now I know I only draw pretty good pictures. My jealousy fueled me to start carrying around sketchbooks and now my free time is spent drawing instead of doing twirly pencil tricks. Now I use art as a verb. I use art as a verb. What Even Is Art though?I've been known to have a radically inclusive definition of art (actually, I'm not known for that at all, this isn't the the sort of topic people talk to me about very often). My definition of art is "anything that is made that is not exclusively for utility." Humans have this rather unique trait of doing stuff for no logical reason (some of the more intelligent animals, like dolphins and elephants, have been known to do this, but not on the same scale). Our society has advanced to the point where not only do we not have to worry about supplying ourselves with necessities of survival, but we have to worry about oversupplying ourselves with those necessities. We do not spend the periods of time between eating and sleeping looking for means which we can eat and sleep, because we don't need to. What I think art is, is what we fill those periods of time with; either making art or taking part in it. Movies, drawing, dancing, reading, using the internet; these are all art (the internet being one of my favorite pieces). Things like martial arts, which took thousands of years to evolve from exercises based on animal movements and become an insanely complex assortment of systems with different philosophies, each giving you hundreds of ways to find a solution to a problem, are art. Not only are video games art, but some video game playthroughs can also be art. To hold our economies and lives together, we have professions, which are almost never entirely for utility, and are therefore art. Even the Wake County Public School System, which I spend a fair share of time complaining about, can be considered art (granted, a particularly underfunded piece of art), as it took a lot of people to make and plenty of its parts have no logical use. In some religious beliefs, a deity or deities created the universe as a work of art. Even Jackson Polluck paintings can be art. I don't know, maybe I'm stretching the word "art" beyond its reasonable definition. Anyway, it is this food for thought I shall close the semester with, because It is almost midnight and this accursed sea lion has been staring at me all day.
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