can coloring pictures in a coloring book be consider art?
While I appreciate "Mike’s" answer, I have to disagree. It is as much an art as is decoupage, fastening gems onto clothing, applying faux finishes on walls and furniture, pinstripes on automobiles and stenciling images onto ceilings and walls.
I would classify it as a form of decorative art, like many crafts are.
Certainly, in the selection and application of colors onto a pre printed image, one can exercise one’s creativity in many ways, from unique colors to being able to color "outside the lines" and get away with it.
Remember, the definition of art is NOT the monetary value one might place on it, but in the exercise of creativity. Who do you suppose shows more pride: The millionaire who puts a valuable oil painting up in his den, or the parent that displays his child’s coloring page on the refrigerator door?
March 16th, 2010 at 10:09 am
If it is just coloring, probably not. If there is fine control color choices so that a person looks at it and says "Wow, I never looked at that image that way" it is more likely art. Normally, the images and the amount of color control in coloring books are so ordinary that only if it is blown way up in size, like Andy Warhol, does it transform from craft or play to art.
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March 16th, 2010 at 10:24 am
If the end result looks interesting I think it can be, otherwise no
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March 16th, 2010 at 11:07 am
art is a way of conveying an effect or emotion to others in form of performance or visual art. the colors you place on the coloring book will effect every person’s eye different. for example if you color the cartoon’s face purple it will effect the audience. however i personal consider coloring in a coloring book to require any talent at all
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March 16th, 2010 at 11:54 am
While I appreciate "Mike’s" answer, I have to disagree. It is as much an art as is decoupage, fastening gems onto clothing, applying faux finishes on walls and furniture, pinstripes on automobiles and stenciling images onto ceilings and walls.
I would classify it as a form of decorative art, like many crafts are.
Certainly, in the selection and application of colors onto a pre printed image, one can exercise one’s creativity in many ways, from unique colors to being able to color "outside the lines" and get away with it.
Remember, the definition of art is NOT the monetary value one might place on it, but in the exercise of creativity. Who do you suppose shows more pride: The millionaire who puts a valuable oil painting up in his den, or the parent that displays his child’s coloring page on the refrigerator door?
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