Artypedia:About

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Abstract

Artypedia is an art project that aims at expanding the view on the term "art". It is an autonomous Wiki that takes selected articles from the english Wikipedia, replacing the main term of the article with the term "art". Terms from the same family as the main term are also replaced transporting the terminology of the article's topic into the realm of art. So for instance when replacing the term "Advertising" with "Art" the term "Advertiser" would become "Artist".

Even More Abstract

Since the beginning of modernism, the beginning of the 20th Century, was to define the meaning of the concept art is always difficult. Since art can not be measured by the artisanal and technical criteria. The clear definition of what distinguishes an artwork from other items were impossible, and even deliberately thwarted. The modern age brought about a paradigm shift on several levels: by the questioning and rejection of traditional aesthetic ideals then in force, as well as the rejection of the philosophical ideas of the Enlightenment. Over time, the concept of art has been expanded to a variety of new disciplines and plant forms. For example, of art as a conceptual space or from work in progress, the speech, all terms that have led to a radical redefinition of art. Since then, however, also used a large disorientation, because even what constitutes "right" or "good" art. It is no secret that this is sometimes difficult for even experts

Defining, explaining or even thinking about art is friggin hard and can make you really miserable.

We all have our personal attitude towards art, artists and the art world. Artypedia articles place the term art into completely different contexts and hereby challenge these attitudes by ironising, rejecting or mirroring the perceived meaning of the term.

Artypedia is a social media experiment, which is open for participation for everyone intrested, 'artist' or not, in the same manner as is the case with Wikipedia.