What is Art?
What is Art?
v Art can range from drawing and painting to preforming and video making. If
you want, you can consider everything to be a work of art. But I have criteria
for considering what is art; considering all the things in the universe as art
would make art a confusing subject, science would be art, English would be
art, math would also be art. You can mix these subjects to create unique
pieces of art, but the point is art is a separate subject and there should be a
criteria for what is considered to be art.
Criteria for Art:
v The viewers’ should be able to interact with the artwork.
v Art should allow the artist to tell a meaningful story to the audience; there
should be content.
v It should be a universal form of expression. People all over the world should
be able to understand/feel what is being communicated.
One example of an artist who follows
these criteria is the artist Jeff Koons. The
image displayed below, Rabbit is an
appropriated art piece that people may
identify as something familiar to them, a
Mylar balloon kids and
adults have received on
special occasions. You
can interact with it and
use it as a mirror since
it has a reflection, and it
tells us about massproduced
consumer
products
and
how
it
represents our consumer
life-style; this can make us
think, "why do we mass
produce these kinds of
objects when it is not
necessary
in
our
survival?" or "Is there a
better
use
of
our
resources than creating a Jeff Koons, Rabbit, 1986.
Stainless steel sculpture.
lot of Mylar balloons?”
Steel is formed into a shape
of a Mylar balloon rabbit.
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Felix Gonzalez- Torrez, “Untitled" (Portrait of
Ross in L.A.), 1991.
Multi-colored wrapped candy installation.
Candies are individually wrapped in multicolored
cellophane and weight changes with time.
Another example i ̃