charles ray

1. is he just doing this to get a reaction out of people?
2. i notice he makes one thing become something else. why?
3. what is his inspiration?

answers
1. "kind of". he really wants people to notice things more than get a reaction but i take that as a getting a reaction out of people.
2. like i said earlier, he wants people to use their brain and look at art more than the replication of something. he makes something look normal but when you look closely it transformes into many distortions of what the object reaaly is and changes the mere essence of that object.
3. his inspiration is what he sees i would say. he takes things in every day life, mannequins and firetrucks to name a couple, and his experiences and makes them into sculptures.




as i was reading the author said charles liked to control the time people took to experience his piece. he like to have these sculptures that seemed completely normal and had something that just wasnt how it was suppose to be. when people noticed it, they spent more time on his piece and realized that his work was more than it seemed. i kinda like that because thats how so much contemporary work is today. most of the time i dont really look to much at art because i either see it right away and dont think much about it. after reading this i definately realize that there is more to art than it seems and i need to look for the subtleties in different pieces.

questions after reading:

1. would it be more successful if he would make things so abstract and then as you get closer you see the connections and the object he wants you too.

2. would the change in scale be a good or a bad thing? smaller or bigger?

3. could he do this 2 dimensionally? if so how?