Manhattan+ conceptual art= One amazing exhibition

Hi, and welcome back to my blog. Today we. Will be talking about a project I did on conceptual art and the Manhattan project. We were tasked with creating an idea that we could express through art. This idea was based on what we learned about the Manhattan project, nuclear power and Hiroshima. All in order to answers this projects driving question:

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Our final product was a room filled with conceptual art that was similar in theme. My room looked at society in different ways. I was personally really proud of what we have accomplished this project. My group (Holly, Asha, Izzy, Julia, Owen, and Ciara) worked well together and were very good at building on each other’s ideas. I really liked Holly’s name for our room “a reflection on society” because we embraced that by putting mirrors up around the room. As a personal touch I also added questions around the mirrors to help provoke thought from the audience.

I felt that I met my goal of getting people to think. Everyone who stopped by my station seemed to enjoy that it was interactive and I got a routine going as well. As people asked more questions I started adding things to my initial speech and that helped to deeper my own knowledge. 

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Something I enjoyed for my own art piece was the depth that people added to it. As people were commenting on my piece I was able to add to it and by the end of the night it seemed a lot more complete then it was at the beginning. This reinforced for me the idea of conceptual art and how the viewer is the one to complete the piece. The fact that mine was interactive helped to show how many people actually came to my piece and participated in both the silent discussion and the audible one. 

Do I like conceptual art now?

Definitely not. This exhibition, while i did enjoy it, did not help my love for conceptual art. I understand the idea behind it however it doesn’t feel genuine to me. When we first started this project we were asked the question; what is art? To which I responded “ art is anything that makes the viewer or artists feel”. After this project finished I needed to revisit that statement. Conceptual art makes me think that the effort behind the art piece and the intent are just as important. Sometimes in conceptual art the meaning is lost in the piece and I can’t enjoy it.

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