While visiting the Art Gallery for yet another assignment today, I got talking to one security officer. She said I should come back tomorrow (Dec 1st) to view Rodin's 'Adam'. It is a large, exaggerated figure of a man displayed in the centre of a room along with other pieces in the permanent collection. Stunning.
She said to take part in the National Day Without Art, it would be draped in a thick, black cloth. How dramatic. This piece is meant to be a celebration of man, and viewing it in this way would change the meaning and reaction entirely.
Next year they will choose to erase something else. Hm.
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I like the idea; but doesn't it seem rather odd that for the Day Without Art, people are encouraged to come and look at a sculpture?
As Bethany said to me earlier, it's an idea that only an artist could come up with...
A Day Without Art?
You said that sticking a black sheet on it creates another reaction to it. I suggest that it actually creates another piece. So it's still art-just different.
Maybe I'm being too literal here, but it seems to me that a Day Without Art is impossible (especially since the whole universe is one massive piece of the greatest art ever created...)
Matthew
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