Art is something that I
considered beautiful upon immediate viewing. Sometimes you have to really look
at a work of art to see the beauty in it. Everyone has their own view as to
what they see as art or beauty for that matter. The piece In Time, to me was beautiful
at inspection.
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| In Minds Sculpture by Tonu Cragg |
I was looking at it from across
the street and I thought “who on earth would put these two pieces of metal on
the street for people to see, this is awful”. I crossed the street and took
another gander at it and got another view. This view was absolutely lovely;
every time I walked around this piece I saw something different. The long neck
of an African sculpture including her chin and the top of her bosom was at one
side. The other looked like mounds of boulders stacked on top of each other. I
had passed this particular piece a few times and had never even paid any
attention to it until the tour. I walked around the two sculptures a few times
to really study them. The middle and the top of the thinner sculpture looked
like stacked plates. If you looked at the same piece it reminded you of an
Aztec sculpture. From across the street the two pieces did look like two
different sized test tubes.
Everyone evokes a different
emotion when they view “art”. Some people don’t see a need for art, and believe
it is absolutely ludicrous. I think that there is a need for art, visual art
for that matter. The act of creating these wonderful pieces gets out pent up
energy that is inside of the artist. It may keep them sane or insane for some.
What you get out of a painting or sculpture is up to you, after all beauty is
in the eye of the beholder.
