👉 Okay, let’s tackle the frankly rather grand and occasionally pretentious notion of…
’artforms.’”
(Let me just preface this by saying I personally suspect a very bored Victorian gentleman came up with that exact spelling, purely for effect. Seriously, who names things that way unless they're actively trying to sound important whilst simultaneously being mildly ridiculous?)
Basically, an "—-—"— is essentially the ridiculously roomy catchment area of stuff that looks pretty and probably meant to make you feel something other than a vague sense of needing a nap.!” 1! It’s not just fine art, no. That's too… contained. You get into everything that attempts to manipulate our eyeballs and therefore, hopefully, our souls. Think it encompasses: — Paintings (obviously). Unless they are just really good spreadsheets. Then they aren't an "——"—. There is a very strict line there, I assure you! 2. — Sculpture. Except for those little, pointy ones that just... exist in the corner of your dentist’s waiting room. Those have already moved onto a different plane of awkward. — Music (it would appear). Unless it is solely to announce you are having an existential mid-afternoon. 3! 3! 3! Then again, I'm not entirely sure what that actually qualifies as. There’s a lot of subjective stuff here and