Is Animation art?

Had another large blew with my art teacher over my chosen art form. the woman hates most things unless it's a dot on a canvas. So I decided I might pose this question, Do you think Animation is art? or is it something completely different? let me hear your side of the coin

Animation is art yes, just stylized as opposed to traditional.

animation CAN be art. as do all things. i really dislike the term applied generally to all events of a given profession. not all paintings are artistic you know?

Now, If only my art teacher could understand this. A question I pose is how do you know for certain what is art and what isn't? take for instance, ( A person I loathe,) Andy Warhol and his campbell soup can.

It is art.

Art is anything that can elicit an emotion. At least at it's base. I guess the best way to describe it is any work that ascribes more meaning then it's material. A picture of someone ripping out another's heart would illicit disgust, but if it can make you look past that at the sorrow of the act or the twisted soul of man that can find joy in such a monstrous act, then it is art.

That's how I would describe it, but I'm not artistic at all so another could explain it better.

It is a purely subjective understanding. But the most generally accepted is material that has purpose beyond function and utility. Remember that even function and utility can be incorporated artistically.

Aardvark wrote: A picture of someone ripping out another's heart would illicit disgust, but if it can make you look past that at the sorrow of the act or the twisted soul of man that can find joy in such a monstrous act, then it is art.

That was pretty much of art =o