Today's society is so technology focused, even some restaurants have televisions mounted in the floor so people can watch tv while waiting in line. Can we not step away from the screen for just a little while to focus on having a meal with our families? What happened to the simple innocence of living without the hype of technology and without needing to know about everything that's going on in the world today?
What makes Thomas Struths work so special? Why is it that him taking pictures of people looking a art can captivate so many people?
In the video we watched in class, people claimed a museum made people feel at home. At home?! Pictures of people looking at you?! How comforting can that be? It may be comforting, but I don't understand the feeling of homeyness being equated to a museum.
Another comment made was art needed to be be made in the time period that you live. I don't necessarily feel that is true. What about in the fashion industry? Bringing old styles back, (sometimes) revamping them slightly, and making them part of modern day fashions. With that being said, how many completely new, innovative ideas is it possible to come up with without having some hint of the past present in any design?
And Marcel Duchamp? He took a urinal and wrote "R. Mutt 1917" and it became a world-wide phenomenon. A urinal. Something men pee in. Why? People analyze why. People analyze what he wrote in the side, the shape of the porcelain structure. Why?
-Alicia
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