Walker Art Response
I enjoyed going to the Walker Art Center, although I wish I had had more time to look around, I barely made it around the first level. In the room where the woman sang “This is Propaganda� there was a piece of ‘art’ that I did not feel was art. It was called “Red, Yellow, Blue III� and it was by Ellsworth Kelly. I do not understand how this is considered art, anyone can paint a canvas full of one color and it’s not that interesting to me because it was just the primary colors and it doesn’t take a genius to put those colors together considering that’s what restaurants give children to color with. Also in the same room, Richard Tuttle’s “8th Paper Octagon� caught my attention, but not right away. It was simply paper pasted to the wall and was almost the same color as the wall. I’m sure a lot of people missed this piece because it doesn’t seem like there was anything there. One piece that I really liked was “Kiki� by Chuck Close. It sort of looked like a photomosaic but it was just a series of squares with circles in the squares. Close up, you wouldn’t know that the whole picture was of a woman’s face and from far away you wouldn’t know that there are little squares and circles. I found the dancing guy amusing, but I wasn’t sure how to react to it, was I supposed to laugh or clap? I suppose that the people’s reactions could be the actual art instead of the silly dance.