Public art

For my public art paper I chose a massive temporary sculpture, Big Bling, made by Martin Puryear located in the heart of Madison Square Park on 23 Street between 5th Avenue and Madison Avenue. The American sculptor, Martin Puryear, has created a marvelous sculpture that with the help of the Madison Square Park Conservancy have placed it in the park with a fence around it for everyone to observe. The sculpture is made out of wood pieces that form a ladder on the inside. It even contains a big…

Art funded by local, state, and federal governments Art improves people’s moods, overall happiness, and outlook on life. Just imagine how many lives have been saved with art. Community members constantly seek out beauty from art, but art can contribute much more than it’s beauty to a society. Art can give a location, a ‘sense of place’, help seniors be healthier, and even improve test scores. Public art provides economic, cultural and educational benefits to a community. Therefore, art should…

Martin Zebracki’s article Beyond Public Artopia: Public art as perceived by its publics, discusses public art and how the people who pass by it interact with it. This type of art can serve as a way to reinvigorate urban development, and Zebracki examines the perception of the public with reference to several specific public art installments. Public art integrates the location into the art and allows the piece to become a part of the city. Barcelona is a city where public art has become an…

An artist is struggling to make a living; she has two children who cannot predict when their next meal is. The artist heard that the WPA (the Works Progress Administration) was funding for the arts as part of a relief program. She was ecstatic to hear she could finally obtain a job to provide for her family. This artist was put in the position of poverty because after WWI, the economy was booming and the American society went through a prosperous period known as the Roaring 20s. In 1929, there…

The recent trend of cutting funding to art programs in public schools who are financially strained has sparked and interest in the impact of art programs on the wellbeing of students. This has led to a debate centered around whether or not fine arts education are beneficial enough to the students and staff to continue fighting for funding. Opposers argue that the money could be used in academics and that the arts provide no real life skills that are applicable after graduation. With more and…

The Fundamentality of the Arts in Public Education Picture a barren wasteland, empty of any thought that branches outside of normality. Beige walls decorate bland streets filled with broken dreams and sullied minds. This is the world without art. Earth takes breaths of life and joy because we strive to create. The world needs art, not for survival, but for the sake of its people. To rephrase: humanity needs art. Art and music help to fuel the brain, these fields of creativity are challenging…

Public Art is ubiquitous through agricultural. From a small building to a monument, numerous people are not aware of how an art can change the perspective of the community. Their inability to interpret and analyze the artwork that the artists were hired create many problems such social, arigcultural and political issues. Because of that, some people criticize the impact of the public to the community that result in demolishing the art project. Harriet Senie believes that the communities…

while it was happening, that the discovery of arts education in my life sort of saved my life” (Diggs). Daveed Diggs, a singer and performer found a passion in the arts. The arts are brought into students worlds in middle and high school, which is when they are truly trying to find who they are. Just like it did to Diggs, the education of the arts can change lives. Education that alumni get at school is how they learn to love creative arts. If the arts get cut, there will be no life changing…

Art is the universal language that creates the same visual to anyone, which is the product of nature, the hands of an artist, or science; but these visuals are going to create different interpretation for anyone who is part of the same audience created by art. Analyzing the quote by June McFee written in the article Why Do We Teach Art in Public Schools “A visual symbolic message is not a direct transfer of one person's experience” (June-McFee, 1968, p.1) describes that a visual or a piece of…

Art is a connector for all humans, not just artists and their world. Whether the audience realizes it or not, local art is a force that often brings people of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles together. Cities as diverse as New York City benefit from the constant stimuli of art. Art takes multiple forms in urban spaces, including graffiti, murals, art museums, and commemorative statues. Within the article Reframing Public Art: Audience Use, Interpretation, and Appreciation,…