What is art?

I haven't a clue what is classed as art and what isn't nowadays. In the town near me we have an exhibition on for the next few months. The works of 'art 'are dotted around the town and done by various artists including Tracy Emin. One of the pieces I do like is by Mark Wallinger . I had two great uncles who died in the First World War, also my grandfather was also seriously wounded and for a while it was touch and go if he would survive. Just looking at all the pebbles really bring it home how many lost their lives in just one day.


Title: Folk Stones
Location: West End of The Leas, close to the William Harvey Statue

19,240 beach pebbles have been numbered and placed in a large square on the Leas. What might at first appear as a senseless act is in fact a subtle memorial, as the number of pebbles equals the number of British and Allied fatalities on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Situated on the Leas, not far from the Road of Remembrance, it marks Folkestone's historical importance as a place from where over one million soldiers left for the battlefields of France and Flanders in the First World War. Wallinger's work is a poignant monument to lives lost on the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army.


Here take a look for yourselves at Tales of Time and Space find out what there is to see or what the newspapers are saying here. What do you think?