#1) I first saw this sculpture in an art gallery near my house in Buffalo, NY. I wish they showed the other side of it too because on the other side are the faces of the two women (who are meant to be the Virgin Mary) who's cloaks you can see in this picture. I think that it's art because I remember when I saw it, it evoked several different emotions within me, such as calmness and serenity when looking at this side, but a more uneasy feeling when looking at the other side, because the other side isn't as refined as this one. I think for something to be art, it needs to evoke a feeling in the person viewing it.
#2) I love how this looks like it could be graffiti, or it could be a person with two different colored eyes and a crazy mustache, or whatever the viewer views it as. Sometimes good art should be able to be viewed from different perspectives.
#3) NO SECOND TROY
by: W. B. Yeats (1865-1939)
Why should I blame her that she filled my days
With misery, or that she would of late
Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways,
Or hurled the little streets upon the great,
Had they but courage equal to desire?
What could have made her peaceful with a mind
That nobleness made simple as a fire,
With beauty like a tightened bow, a kind
That is not natural in an age like this,
Being high and solitary and most stern?
Why, what could she have done, being what she is?
Was there another Troy for her to burn?
"No Second Troy" is reprinted from The Green Helmet and Other Poems.
W.B. Yeats. Dundrum: Cuala Press, 1910.
I feel that art is art, no matter what form the canvas takes. Here for instance, I think the art is in the way Yeats uses the English language, and the image that the poem paints for me while reading it. The individual is the one who decides whether something is art or not. So, I think that anything can be art.
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