Week 1 Response

Victor Murillo

Art and Community

01/18/17

One Place After Another

-List 5 or more questions or wonderings you have about after reading this text. Consider including only "what", "how", and "why" questions. (10 points)

1.   What is “Public Art”?

2.   How is “Culture in Action” different from “In Public:Seattle”?

3.   What are the differences between site-specific location art and public art?

4.   What is postmodern social realism?

5.   Does public art have to be audience and/or issue specific?

-List 5 or more takeaways based on your reading. What did you learn? What resonated with you? What stood out in contrast with your own views on the topic? (10 points)

1.   “As public art has developed over the last two decades, it emphasis has been on techniques of integration – not just to incorporate art physically into buildings and park but also foster social assimilations.”

2.   In the reading there was a lot of talk about how simple art festival decisions can have drastic views on how art is displayed.

3.   I also began to realize that site specific work does not really make the art “public”, but instead it becomes a location for the presentation of the artist work.

4.    I also learned from the reading that when creating art in a public setting, the effects on how would the community react to your art piece is important. Consequently environmental influence can affect an art piece.

5.   Art can never be “public.”