Post #2645668

@MartinEscardo@mathstodon.xyz This popped back into my mind this morning because I was thinking about a discussion with another friend about some art. There's a long history of people trying to exclude certain styles, or media, or themes, or etc., by calling them non-art, or (even worse) not *true* art. Those kinds of separations always seem to be more about the motivations of the people calling for them, rather than something intrinsic about the nature of art. I'm not enough of an art historian to say more about that, but the parallels between the questions "what is art?" and "what is math?" are interesting, and maybe useful. The answer you started with---"It's something that people do." is one I like a lot, both for what it says, and what it doesn't say.