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It is not quiet clear exactly what the biogas project is but I think I understood what it is trying to do. I think the article is a fine example of art in its true form. Art for art’s sake is not really art as much as artist trying to get rich, this makes it false and impure. The true purpose of art is to communicate, innovate, and explore. Something that this biogas project is attempting to do in impoverished Africa. Almost everything in history originated as art forms and later developed into its own field. This includes architecture, design, culinary art, the idea of capturing images, and even religion. Those are just the obvious examples, in reality, so much more things we do not think about came from art. I am interested the results this biogas yields.
But, is it Art?
The definition of art has always been a controversy. In the 20th century we have seen all sorts of things called art and that is why some people decided that art cannot be defined. Some people defined art to be anything made with the intention of making art. I however believe art to be something much broader, I believe art is anything made by a sentient being through a creative thinking process. This of course includes design, but it also includes things like airplanes, cars, refrigerators, etc... Today we consider many things made in the past to be art even though they served a practical purpose. So really our definition of art is always changing. One only needs to realize that everything created is a form of expression in one way or another to understand that art is all around us.
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