What is a good presentation idea for "What is art"?

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Yaya

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Me and 3 of my classmates in college are doing a group presentation on What is Art? according to Leo Tolstoy, Edgar Allen Poe, Sir Joshua Reynolds, David Hume, and Victor Shklovsky. Each of these men wrote essays on their idea of art. We need a clever and unique way to tie these people's ideas together for our presentation. Any ideas for us????
 
Well i'm not sure of the essays you're alluding to so I can't really suggest anything about them specifically. However, for a presentation on this topic in general I would totally find some way to work in David Letterman's 'Art or Ape?' segment. If you're not familiar, each time he runs the segment he shows an abstract painting, and people have to guess whether it was made by an ape or a real artist. Most of the time people guess it's by an artist, and it usually just ends up being the result of a gorilla slopping paint onto a canvas. It's really just for laughs, but it raises interesting issues. Similar issues are explored in a documentary with a title something like, 'My Kid Could Paint That'--might be worth watching.
 
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