Th Is Art
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Th Is Art
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Description
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I'm a freshman majoring in Exercise Physiology in hopes of one day becoming an Athletic Trainer or a Physical Therapist. I was a competitive gymnast most of my life and with that came many injuries which got me interested the way our bodies work. The body is a fascinating piece of art and I fell in love with learning about how it heals and how it fixes itself. Besides working out, I love to spend my free time doing crafts. I love to create things. I have painted signs and furniture, I make bracelets, and I can sew.
This was created as an assignment for Susan Ludeke's ART 1910: Art Appreciation course. The Getty Museum's art challenge was created as a way for people to engage during the pandemic. My process in creating this imitation is fairly simple in a step by step kind of way. The thought behind why I chose this piece of Art is equally as important as the physical process itself. At the start of this project, I was looking for a piece of art that I could use food in order to imitate the image. As I searched for a picture for this project I got fixated on Andy Warhol and his lifetime of work. After seeing some of his work and learning about his life I wanted to ask myself a deeper question... What is art? Is art only a visual thing only or is art a conceptual concept? Is it one or the other, or is it both?
Along with several other works of art by Andy Warhol, for me specifically, his Banana Print (1967) was extremely thought provoking and turned out to be a good conversation piece about the parameters of art, if there are any and what makes art, art. It is clear that this is a banana, and that Andy Warhol took an everyday object, made a print of it and called it art. It is certain that art is in the eye of the beholder. When one looks at art, it is meant to spark an emotion, a thought, make a statement and even tell a story. The experience is different for everyone, but at the end of the day if what you are looking at has sparked anything inside of you, negative or positive than I would say it has done its job. Is that what art is? How do you define art?
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Raleigh, North Carolina
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Creator
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Anonymous
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Date
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2021-02-04
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