flight said something fascinating in response to my post on street art-she said "everything is art if you look at it with an artist's eye". and its really true- we have so much stuff around us, we just take it for granted. that's what pop art is about-making people realize the art all around them. the thing that inspired me to think this, actually, was a broken teacup. i was walking down the street and i saw a teacup broken into two pieces in a trash can. and it was the most lovely thing i had ever seen-delicate, exquisite, elaborately painted and yet still simple and dainty. it was gorgeous, so i took it. then, when i got home, i realized "i just took a broken teacup out of a garbage can and brought it home." i mean, what was i supposed to do with it? so i put it on a ledge near my house for all to admire.
there are two things: natural and artificial. artificial things are all art, and natural things are all beauty.
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by saying natural things are beauty, artificial, art, is to say that beauty does not mix with art. But I find art beautiful, if not all of it. btw, my grandfather is sooo like you it's not even funny. He also brok a bowl on accident, and instead of throwing it away, gather the two pieces, photographed it in various ways, and now it rests on a shelf with a bunch of other odd thingummys.
i think many things are beautiful, such as a hot dressing room filled with dancers, and a bus filled with middle school kids, and a nasty graffiti (not the "pretty" kind) covered train. I think things that represent life and its common presence is beautiful. :)
Hey first time on your blog...
I agree their is art in everything and I also think that art can be interpreted in different ways... For you the cup might be something very beautiful but for someone else it mihgt depict something totally different...
May be i am talking a bit too much..
You have got an interesting thought process and a way of looking at things...
Cheers
it's so true!! i went to the baltimore aquarium on tuesday, and some of the fish are just so gorgeous and incredible, i just can't help but consider them as art. it's kind of the same way with music... music is all around you, except that of course it's what you hear not what you see.
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