Evelyn Should Be Considered Art

In our first discussion, I described art as anything and everything that is created and can affect someone emotionally. With this definition, Evelyn’s art project would be considered art, but it made me want to revise my definition after thinking about it. An artist should be able to imagine the final result in their mind, so they can have something to work towards and know when they are finished, even if the process may change here and there. Evelyn’s objective was to test how much she could change about her human sculpture by only using manipulation and no force; she never told Adam that he needed to do all the improvements. Her focus was on the methods she used to “form” her sculpture, not on creating a piece to resemble the image in her mind because she did not have one. Without an image, her work was merely an experiment and a way to demonstrate her ability for persuasion, so her art project was not actually art. …show more content…
Jenny and Phillip both depart early from Evelyn’s showing, and then Adam visits Evelyn at her exhibition gallery and expresses his resentment with what Evelyn calls a “potty mouth”. By looking at Phillip, Jenny, and Adam’s reactions to Evelyn’s art project, they were clearly offended, making it unethical. But, Evelyn was right. She did make Adam better; she improved his looks and his lifestyle, making him more appealing and attractive to other people. Although Adam stated he could no longer show his face in the streets, being Evelyn’s human subject benefitted him. Maybe it also means having to move to another city where no one knows him, but his life wasn’t all that great in that small town anyways. Evelyn’s ways of changing Adam may not have been the best methods, but what Adam turned out to be improved him, so I believe it is