Entertaining

I am really the wrong person to post on this subject but: Art is Entertainment.

I've kind of been stuck when it comes to trying to decide what art is: it's undefinable because art is opinion. I think the same goes for entertainment.

When I think of art though I automatically think of entertainment too. In class we talked about movies made solely for the purpose of entertainment, but to me, that's why every work of art is made. Even the stupidest, most pointless, violent movies are art to me. Movies, shorts, blocks of color on canvas,  are all works of art to me, even if there's nothing about them that evokes any emotion from me (which is hard to do). 

If I'm not feeling much about a film or am contemplating my life because of it, it's entertainment. I might walk out of the theater and never think about it again. But it was entertainment, and it was art. 

And in historical hindsight, "art" originated because of humans' love for entertainment. Caves with the first little drawings scrawled on the inside of their mouths are art. But maybe to the aspiring film students back then they were just cruddy entertainment. Oh wait...

Greek theatre originated on threshing floors with nothing but imagination and people's love to just watch and turned into the astounding plays we have today with crazy special effects and film. 

Not a movie, but a story in itself. Titled, "Wonder Boys," it has hardly anything to do with Superman but a lot to do with superheroes. It's art that's entertainment.
http://michaelo.deviantart.com/art/Wonder-Boys-273699837

Maybe art is really refinement, taking entertainment at it's face value and infusing it with these wholistic ideas that only beauty and the dragging of nails across heart strings can evoke. 

Movie not many people are too fond of...(and it's a superhero movie!) Entertaining? Perhaps not your cup of tea. Art? Definitely. But might not be your artistic cup of tea.

I don't know. All I'm saying is that I believe art, whether it's the ill-composed, cheesy movie you paid too much money to watch in the theater, or that 6'x8' canvas splattered with utmost technique, is entertainment, even if only for the artist. Art tells stories, movies tell stories, stupid tells stories, and I think stories are entertainment.