Blog 29: Due Nov. 23 by Midnight
American Beauty--Plastic bag scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qssvnjj5Moo
Objects of beauty come to us from all corners of our worlds. Sometimes, all it takes is slowing down and recognizing that something we normally walk by, barely notice, or are used to is actually aesthetic in its own way. Alexa Meade discovered her art form by noticing shadows (TedTalk above). In the youtube clip above, a plastic bag floating in the wind becomes a hypnotically rare piece of art through the lens of a video camera. This is what is referred to as 'found art'.
1. Describe something out of what we ordinarily label as "art", that you have noticed as aesthetically pleasing--try to describe in as much detail as you can so that by reading your post, we can easily understand why this object, moment, sound, sight, etc caught your artist's eye.
2. Is 'found art' really art? If there is not motivation behind it (as you posted about last week), or if there is not a human instigator creating it or setting it into motion for the purpose of art, does it qualify? Explain.
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