- What felt amazed when I got to participate in the maintenance art activity. When I was cleaning it, it needed to be cleaned just to know that it looks the sculpture look nicer. Most people interpret the piece to be a whale: the first 2 pieces of sculpture represents the body of the whale. While the last part represents the tail of the whale or part of an attend. While we were doing this activity, there were people passing by and asking “What’s going on here: how interesting”?. The interesting thing was we saw the engraving on the sculptures which show its age. If there was rust which was irremovable, then it shows even more about how long has it’s been around.
2. Mierle Laderman Ukeles cleaning the steps of an art museum and Richard Serra flinging molten lead against the walls of an art museum was different because it seemed like Mierle was assigned the duty of being a janitor which is inferred to clean the toilets, the floor around campus, as well as to clean the stairs. In that case, Mierle’s act does not seem like art because in the picture, she had the equipment to mop the stairways as well as to clean the floors. Unlike Richard Serra, which he lead against the walls of an art museum was different than Mierle’s act because in the photos, he was in a sculpture maze, which could mean abstraction is there, which there was. That sculpture was maze is definitely a piece of art because of it could represent the blueprint or the base of a factory which is not finished yet.
3. No, it does not seem like Mierle Laderman Ukeles’ Maintenance Art performance was at Wadsworth Atheneum “art”. The reason is because by the image that we were provided about Mierle, it seemed like she was hired as a janitor. When I searched up images for Wasdsworth Athenuem art, it turned out to be a lots of artifacts as well as paintings, which patrons pay for their ticket to see cool artifacts and paintings. And for every painting, there should always be a message and a different representation for each meaning. For example, looking at the deceleration of independence painting, you can tell that it represents the timeline of the 18th century as well as realism or any other theme. The message was that they were signing the declaration of independence, and for those who have signed it to tell Great Britain to stop taking control of us, some of their lives were lost (tragedy).
4. Yes, this can be very subjective. Once again, an action or an object can or can be art, depending on popularity. Just like an analogy we discussed in class, there are people that paint their houses for different intentions. In that case, there are two cases: (A) a man to paint the house versus a (B) women who decorate their house, so when guests come over, it would very nice. In case A, the man needs to paint the house to do the bare minimum in which is paint the walls white to protect the wood from getting molded. Yet on the other hand, a women first needs to paint the house to ensure that the house is not molding. Then, the woman can put hours into decorating the house for a living, which is considered art because of the women is spending more time and money to make their house as creative as possible. Therefore, I believe that time is a huge factor into art. The more time they spend, the more that I believe that that activity is going to be art. Yes, painting on canvas could be art because due to the fact that our huge fan Kobe Bryant passed away just last week, his painting on canvas will become art due to popularity. And by the Bryant tribute, if his canvas had his official signature, then over time the price of Kobe Bryant’s canvas is going to increase.
5. Yes, Mierle Laderman Ukeles has made me think differently about “Women’s Work is also Art” because she has showed me visually what’s right versus wrong. Because employees that I’ve seen are mostly men in the professional field such as nursing and where I work, it yet does not mean that there are more women than men. Because Mierle Laderman Ukeles got hired as a janitor, which most of them are men, it means that we have to respect women employees as well. Where I work right now, because it is fast food restaurant and there are more men workers then women workers, it does prove to be a counterexample of saying: “All of my managers are men”. It’s true that in my case, most of the managers tend to men, yet there is also 1 assistant manager which is a women. Therefore, I shall consider, Women’s Work is also Art to where we should welcome wore women workers rather than mostly men workers.
6. If I were to have the time to go down all the way to Hollywood for the Walk of Fame, and clean one of all the stars, I would clean Mickey Mouse due to the fact that the figure has created at least half of my childhood memories. At least half of the movies that I watched was made from Disney. A quarter of my moveis that I watched had Mickey Mouse in the movie. Mickey Mouse is a masterpiece that no Disney Fan shall ever forget even if the actor for Mickey Mouse passed away. Also, another thing to point out is that there are many references associated with Mickey Mouse such as Funko Pops – vinly figures of Mickey Mouse, and video games such as Kingdom Hearts.
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