Monday, November 26, 2007

With the topic being conceptual art, the entire class banded together to make a piece composed of letter-sized paper and thick graphite lines. I'm not quite so sure the goal was to make something that was aesthetically-pleasing, because the end result was pretty anti-climactic. As the name implies, conceptual art is more about the concept and its implementation than the final product, and there was actually a bit of a system involved to the piece described above. We had to draw randomly from a hat a certain type of line, and put it together respectively to the order in which we had drawn. So to some degree it wasn't completely random. I tend to think it's the participant's discretion whether they want to take anything away from the experience and the boundaries are really quite limitless.

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