| I wouldn't expect people who cannot value the work of someone else's art to understand the overwhelming feeling this woman must have experienced.
I would be inspired by this woman simply because she stepped over the limitations of everyone elses boundaries. This is a display of something more genuine than scribbling a little letter down and sending it to the artist or standing there gazing at it behind a wall of guards and laser beamed security. Maybe if we brought down the walls to enjoy and appreciate art we all would understand a little bit better. Instead of putting it up and classing it unattainable by putting a two million dollar price on it, we are only setting ourselves apart from the art, the artist and everything that art should be able to accomplish in the world of culture and society.
Maybe if we allowed people to take a few steps over the line the art would be able to evoke something more than cynicall criticizm.
People who appreciate art don't defface it. All she did was kiss it. She wasn't intentionally trying to Damage the art. The principal behind it was to show that she appreciated it. She wasn't adding to it, correcting it as she saw fit, she was merely showing the emotion that it had evoked in her.
Despite how long the artwork to or if it was easy to create or not. The artist should appreciate the fact that someone understood the emotion that was put into the artwork.. And didn't stand there asking what the hell it was all day trying to define it.
Unless of course the safety of the artwork in question has more value than any emotion created in the wake its fan. |