Bridge Day 7 : ART

Art can be expressed in different ways, but in my opinion there are really two types, amateur and museum. Amateur art is a type of art that a person created in an artistic way, but it may not be the most amazing piece of work. Museum art is rather that the common person can’t easily do and is looked at in awe. When asked “what do you consider good art or bad art?” well I’m not one to judge of some ones artistic ability. Art itself is any type of creative way you make something with your own hands. The difference is, not all art should be hanging in a museum when it’s not a masterpiece.


A piece of work I created out of ten minutes of boredum
in my computer graphics class.

My favorite style of art are paintings, I find them so beautiful and it’s amazing that somebody made that with a little bit of brush and color. When you find a beautiful landscape, portrait, or just a random canvas that has a vast amount of detail, it is just stunning. But when you have a huge piece of paper on the wall with one small dot, it is symbolic but a majority or human beings will not understand the meaning behind it. I don’t find simplicity, as in strings hanging or just a chair in the middle of a room art, for reasons as it was something already created and you just placed it in a room. That person almost put no effort into something that is now featured in a museum when painters and sculptors take days or months even to finish a masterpiece. It is not fair to people who make real art work and master pieces to be taken off a wall to be replaced by a piece of string.

The Art Institute of Chicago had some fantastic pieces of art, but then you would turn a corner and say to yourself, “is that seriously in here”. But I guess that is what makes a museum, the fact that it’s not all masterpieces or the world’s most amazing work of art. Without bad art, you couldn’t have the amazing pieces of art work right? During my visit to the Art Institute of Chicago, I saw some pretty great art, such as this one piece that was not just one style of art but a combination of many styles. It starting with a typical painting, which had wood, adds to make the 3D effect which added the extra factor. Then you would find photography images and coins and objects glued to the piece, it really added so many factors to the piece that you could describe it in so many different ways. It was the one piece that stood out to me because I found it so different then your typical painting or art work you find in aa museum. The reason that is such a great piece of art compared to a string is because how much time did that man put into that 3D multi part piece of art? And how much time did the guy put into hanging a string down from the ceiling? You can’t even compare the difficulty or the impact of creativity, which is why I consider the string, not to be art.