All in all, I really enjoyed this class. I really love how the class combined the culture and history of Mexico and art, two of my interests. I also loved my research paper topic. I thought it combined a lot of issues we discussed in class, such as authorization of art, and also gave me a chance to learn more about my home.
Even past this class, I feel I have already begun to continue to explore the questions we have asked throughout the course to real life. The other day, I was discussing with a studio art major senior here about the purpose of art and what is considered art. We talked about the event where a man dropped his glasses in the Modern Museum of Art and everyone thought his glasses were one of the exhibitions. She mentioned that she has noticed that those were are more outspoken receive more recognition for their artwork during critiques. She also talked about her struggle with artists who put meaning into their art versus those who do not or those who just make up a story after they have made their piece.
I also recently attended a performance for a music composition class. The six students in the class composed a piece that was performed in Rollins Chapel. For some of them, a string trio performed the piece, using unconventional methods to make sound with their instruments. For others, students used video game music to create a piece. And finally, two students had a performing art piece. During the two pieces, I recalled what we talked about in class with performing art.
I feel that I will continue to draw from what we have learned in our class and continue to see that in real life. When I go to Montreal, I hope to view the street art there and apply what I have learned. I also hope that when I return home, I will revisit University Avenue and Clarion Alley and view these streets with a new eye.
As a Dartmouth grad, working in the arts and living in Palo Alto, I was thrilled to see a recent studio trying to link Rivera, Greg Brown and the SF Mission muralists.
I'm actually on a different tack, trying to inject an artist's mindset into public policy.
The Percent for Art work at our new Mitchell Library is by Dartmouth alum Bruce Beasley, who also has some small pieces in Dartmouth's new (to me) library.
I'm not sure how our current Public Arts Commission would respond, for example, to a challenge to create public art influenced by Dartmouth's Orozco Murals. We did have a multi-artist BLACK LIVES MATTER temporary, governent sponsored street mural last year.
"student" not "studio"
"government-sponsored"
It's actually a separate subject to consider the inherent compromise of public art compared to connoisseurship or curation or the choices an individual can make, de gustibus non est disputandem.
Greg Brown was a maverick who predated the Palo Alto Arts Commission rather than being shaped by it.