From: Scott Chase (osteopilus@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri 15 Apr 2005 - 01:47:38 GMT
--- Bill Spight <bspight@pacbell.net> wrote:
> Dear Chris,
>
> > (btw if a chimp made art is that allowed to be
> culture rather than
> > environment under the strict definition..?)
>
>
> IIRC, a painting by a mule won a prize in a modern
> art exhibition in
> Paris early in the 20th century. ;-)
>
Art is so subjective that the patterns of litter
scatter and droppings in a cat's litterbox could win
1st prize in some circles. The cat put as much effort
into its creation as some human artist throwing
buckets of paint at a wall to see what pattern
emerges.
I think there's a certain beauty to behold in a
finished leatherback turtle nest. I'd include the
crawl marks up and back to the water too as part of a
completed masterpiece.
Technically true art is a human creation, but some
animal works might just squeak by, especially if we're
judging by quality ;-)
When a mule can weld chunks of scrap metal together
and stick it out in front of a municipal building,
then we can talk mule culture.
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