- While cleaning a sculpture at CSULB I felt a little awkward at first but then settled into the activity as more people got involved in cleaning and discussing their ideas on how they see the sculpture and what it looks like in their mind. I also felt proud that I was doing something good at the school other than attending it I felt proud that other people were looking at me confused and weird while I was cleaning the sculpture.
- The reason as to why we view Mierle Laderman Ukeles cleaning the steps of an art museum and Richard Serra flinging molten lead against the walls as art is because it goes agaisnt what we think is art or what is traditionally art since it is breaking the walls that society has paced. The way these pieces of art are considered the same is that they both break the wall of what we think art and they show this by expressing what they feel in their art whether it was by cleaning some steps or throwing some lead.
- Mierle Laderman Ukeles’ cleaning of the steps was considered in my opinion to be art since it demonstrates that a woman can do anything regardless of what society thinks of them in today’s world or back in the fifties. The fact that she did at a art museum helps her case a lot since she did it in a open public space where people could view her act and where it requires janitors to clean the steps as it being apart of their job, but if she was to be apart of the janitors workforce it would have been seen as a normal task and would not be considered an act art. Overall her doing something shes not suppose to do makes it an act of art as she is going against what society wants her to do and expects from her.
4. There is a line between something being considered art and something not being art but that line is very vague as the simplest thing can be considered art so I say art is considered art in the eye of the viewer depending on what a person thinks is art. So now we ask ourselves are painting on canvases in an art museum considered art I say yes as any painting done on a canvas or not on a canvas is considered art in my mind. That leads us to ask if house painting are art this is true as any piece of art is art no matter where it is located as the pieces of art shows what someone is thinking or what they are feeling at the moment they made it , so whether the painting was done on a canvas or not in a art museum or at home it is still considered art. Another thing to address is painting a house is considered art as it is showing what type of person or family is living there it shows how happy this person or family is.
5. I believe that women’s work or whatever a women does is art as they demonstrate how they can do their work at the best level they can whether it is office job or being a mom a women just being herself is art as it takes a lot to get through this so called mans world as they are expected to do some many things with so little time.
6. The person that I would clean their Hollywood star for is Vin Scully the Dodgers broadcaster for 63 years as he not only broadcaster the games but he told stories within the game all her ever did was bring joy to those that heard his soft voice during the day and at night plus he was highly respected throughout the game of baseball and throughout the broadcasting world so I would happily clean Vin Scully star.
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