Where Ideas Grow

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Every moment of every day art is created. A person can look at anything for a period of time, and eventually find some artistic quality to it. Will that quality that he or she finds be the same as the artist's, or even the same as the person standing right next to them? Of course not. But does that really matter? What is most important in a work of art, the artist's intention, or the viewers' reaction? Regardless of its original purpose, or even the creator's intention behind the work, it is simply that specific personal interpretation of the viewer that is of any significance. What the artist is thinking is nice to know, but it isn't the most important aspect of the work. While there are certain "presumed demands of the marketplace" by the public on an artist, the artist should not be thinking of his audience when creating the work (National...). The work itself will elicit a reaction from the viewer, and every reaction will be different. What the artist must focus on is his own intention in creating the work.

At DIA Center for the Arts in New York City, there are six floors of very different art. There is video art, mirror art, art made from yarn, and art created from echoes of sound. Every person who goes through

While most agree that creativity and inspiration emanate throughout all of existence, where this inspiration comes from is still considered to be a mystery. Everyone, from published writers to six-year-old children, has contemplated at one point or another this question. Some believe that ideas come from an outside source, a higher power. This is the cornerstone for religion. Others believe this theory to be false, instead stating that while the concept of divinity is necessary, that it is merely a concept contrived by man to justify and give meaning to existence. Still others take a different approach, instead deciding to focus more on the aspect of the rights and privileges of the person writing the text, regardless of whether or not the idea came from God or man.

Rather than choosing to believe that God and art are separate, Mrs. Eddy deems art a direct expression of God. According to her, the divine creator generates man, and then uses him to express creativity and insight. This is founded on the basis that ideas are infinite, never ceasing to flow from their natural divine spring, God. It is folly to believe that we own the infinite inspiration behind art, yet cannot even grasp the concept of infinity. So there must be some connection between God and art. Not only that, but the question of religion's role in art has created several other discussion topics. One in particular is the idea that if art is not really created by the artist, then should he or she sign it as their own? Even taking religion out of the picture, and boiling the question down to its purest form, does the artist have rights and privileges to their ideas? Are their ideas really theirs?

For the artist, Dan Graham, the work is both a sculpture and an installation. This architecture is public rather than private, involved with leisure and display, and with meditation as well as social interaction. The walls of the pavilion shift between transparent and reflective states as the intensity of light changes, creating changing and complex visual effects with the sky, surrounding landscape, and interactions with people on the roof. While this is an extreme example of letting an audience decide for themselves what to look at, it is a universal law of art. Be it a play, a painting, or a sculpture, the audience will look at what they want to. All an artist can do is attempt to lead the audience in the direction they want them to go, using techniques such as diagonal lines, or effective scenery, or chiseled features. Not always will the reaction the artist wants happen, but if the artist is talented, it will work most of the time. This act of putting the viewer first is what makes art appeali

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