My group chose to highlight a sticker we found stuck to a pole. We picked it for its warm colors of red and orange and yellow with some cool blues hidden within the art work on the front. The main focal point was a fist in the center of the sticker. To us this was a ‘Power to the People’ sticker.
Our art was art before we put the frame around it because it was already invoking some deeper thought and more emotions without a frame or box showcasing it. Putting the box around it just might have brought more attention to it but it doesn’t make it art.
Of course like I said above art is everlasting in that it is art no matter what the circumstance is. Box or no box this sticker was created with purpose and motive to make the observer feel something. It may be a positive or negative emotion but it required you to think.
Art is subjective. The beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder. Now that being said I believe art isn’t everything we look at because then art would just be everything and inevedably nothing at the same time. So art is the process of creating something with intent of emotion or story or laughter… etc.
Of course art can be something other than an object. Sound. Some of the most moving artwork is music and sound. Being able to enhance a feeling or mood by simply adding in the factor of sound to emulate what your intent is.
Art does reside in the experience of the viewer. A ball is simply a ball until you give it meaning. I believe art is the process of emotions and feelings in physical representations. Art is what you make it.
Sage 