Thursday, July 30, 2009

Appreciation for the arts "my masterpiece"

If I was limited to do a body of work that all used the median of paint and canvas I would create remakes of some of the most famous works of art. The replication would attempt to be as close as possible and the point of replicating such famous works of art is to show disrespect for monumental work in art history but also could be taken as a disregard for supporting artists and pirating art. My installment would be held outside on one day only, and all the replicas would be transported in a Trash truck. It would be waited on by an patient audience waiting to see what was within the truck. When the truck would arrive it would dump the hundreds of replicas into one single pile, and I would then walk up to the pile and catch it on fire.
This isn’t because I disrespect famous pieces of art. Its because I believe that in our current era, people do not understand that the substantial amount of influence that artwork has on the world around us. That people are so self absorbed within their own gain, that they disrespect and blow off anything that doesn’t directly apply to them. This would be stressing my main personal touch of making an audience think and leave with an idea of changing the society around them.

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