"Is art just an attempt to capture the experience of being alive?"
It certainly is if you share any of the views regarding art as: Experience, and Communication among a few others. This is rather obvious when considering art as experience. With art as communication the primary use for communication is to share experience, with secondary goals of sharing emotion. An example of this to include bad, or, poor art would be a child's drawing portraying a house and family. This is communicating that the child has a house and parents and siblings. The child grows older, and his/her technical skill progressed as well as his/her understanding of communication, symbolism, art, and emotion. They produce a new work, this time a small black dot, surrounded by a white gap, then a surrounding circle of blood red that fills the rest of the canvas. This work, instead of simplistically communicating facts, representationally communicates, as the artist claims, a feeling of loneliness, peer pressure, depression, among other things.
Are both works art?
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