FINDING ART

In our frame we had chose a print that was medium sized; it was about a foot and a half all round. We didn’t want the frame to be too small so not everyone could see and we also didn’t want it to be too big where you would miss all of the detail. The area that we chose is multi colored however it changes from bright colors to more dull when the sun is not directly on it. There is a contrast from the top concrete layer to the more rough brink texture and the grooves that are in between them. Looking at this art, it makes me feel uneasy since there is a white spot placed right in the middle of the frame. Since the background is bricks placed on one another, it creates a linear and even spacing between each brick. I had hoped that to a viewer it shows regardless of what happens in life; life doesn’t revolve around you and that time still goes on. The bricks are meant to show the building of oneself and the white mark is to show that ones surrounding will be part of the growing process.

The Art was not art before we placed a frame around it. I always walk pass this area and have never thought to look at that wall until we did the activity. I also feel that the Art won’t be art when the frame is removed because majority of the wall still has the white spot on it. It really just blends in with the surrounding.

I think depending on what type of art a person is viewing, art could reside in the object. Art is more in the intention of the artist and what they perceive and create as art. If someone drops paint onto the ground accidentally, then that spot wouldn’t be considered art; however is someone were to intentionally throw paint on the ground to create art then that would be considered art. We will only know what is art is presented in a way that makes a person see it is art.

Art can definitely be something other than an object; for example: poetry, movies and music. However I don’t think that art resides in the experience of the viewer/reader. I feel as if art is something created and the viewing experience is just something the creator intends on. A person can view an object but was the intention of the object really intended on being art in the first place?