On his blog, Griffin asked: "Can a human be an art object?"
Scanning through the blogs of my fellow classmates, I found that this question had been asked and answered by others. Their answers included tattoos and sculptures of the human form. But, in these pieces, is the human being a work of art? Is the sculpted man any more human than the person in the painting? Is it the image of the tattoo or the bearer that is art? While I cannot deny that the above examples are art, I'm not sure that they qualify as human being as an art object.
So, when is a human being an art object? Once a year, somewhere in California, a performance art show is held. In the show, performers reenact famous pieces of visual art onstage, in front of an audience. During a period of darkness, the scene is set and the performers take their places. When the lights come on, the performers hold perfectly still, often in challenging positions, until the lights go off again several minutes later. The humans are the medium of the art. So, yes, human beings can be art.
Is there anything that can't be art, under any circumstances?
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