This was for a piece I did for one of my classes, that my professor didn't seem to like very much...
.....But I like it.
I was concerned with the idea that art has become a type of commodity in our now predominantly consumerist society. The piece is meant to be a commentary on the fact that there are many art critics that believe art has lost its value since venturing away from a traditional formal painting, in a gallery, on a wall.
Some ideas;
Art is now mass produced.
It is all around us.
It has been made readily available to the everyday consumer.
Has art really lost something since becoming 'commercialized'?
Incorporate the bodily experience of going into a gallery and walking, looking...paintings mounted on the wall directly ahead of us at eye level.
The shopping bag as an icon of this consumerist society.
People being concerned with the quality of art, as opposed to the quantity of it.
