Isn't there a law against littering or dumping trash on the island?
Isn't there a law against littering or dumping trash on the island?
Somebody diniterred this months-old thread just to write a grouchy complaint about the last century + of western art? And post a picture of a work that has nothing to do with the subject of the thread to illustrate it? Wow... a little too much time...
And someone wasted their precious time to post a grouchy response...to a grouchy response...to a grouchy response...to a...
Isn't that how this internet forum thing works?
"What is art?" is a rich and complex question. If we all really wanted to wrestle, this could be the longest thread on DetroitYes, ... well maybe not longer than the Garwood thread. ;-)
Your photo blog is simply amazing....
Speaking of sculptures, and no I am not part of this project but it looks like a great book project to donate to. I for one would love to read this book about Belle Isle.
https://www.patronicity.com/project/..._photogaphy#!/
Research suggests there are five stages of aesthetic [[appreciation) development. This thread suggests many of the people on this forum are at level 1 or 2!
Descriptions of each stage are provided here:
https://vtshome.org/aesthetic-development/
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Reminds me of the story of an NYC art gallery opening, where patrons were looking at a toilet and several moldy pipes and a tarp in the middle of the gallery. After much ooh's and ahh's, and a positive newspaper review,Gazelle, my butt. Looks like the duct work in my attic.
it turned out to be unfinished contractor debris.
Sold for $100,000,000. [[not). Butt cracks not included.
I was thinking of that sculpture, too, when I read that the OP's piece was supposed to be a gazelle. I think Marshall Fredericks did it much better! For some reason, that gazelle always gives me chills. I have never seen the Detroit version, only the one in Midland in Dow Gardens. Incidentally as a child of about 3 years old, I encountered and was fascinated by the Fredericks sculpture "The Lion and the Mouse" at Eastland Mall. I remember my parents had to drag me away from it kicking and screaming, lol. It was my first encounter with art and touched off a lifelong appreciation for it I think. :-)
Gazelle by Marshall Fredericks outside the Belle Isle Conservatory. Photo by moi January 2016
^^^ Awesome photo!
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