Last summer, I went to the Art Institute and saw the
Jeff Wall exhibit. Personally, I loved most of the exhibit. The pictures were very large, taking up most of one of a wall. There was so much detail, you couldn't imagine the photo being any smaller. The really cool part of the pictures, though, was that they were illuminated. The pictures seemed to be displayed in front of a light box, making the details even more evident.
I think the mark of someone truly artistic is coming up with ideas that other people wouldn't think of. This was my main critical point with Wall. If I, an amateur photographer, could have taken the picture, I don't regard it very highly. There needs to be something extraordinary about the picture, or it needs to have lasting power.
Some of my favorites:
My least favorites:
And my absolute favorite:
1 comment:
Very cool, Bernadette. Wall's pieces are extra-ordinary -- and made me think of the spaces in my life outside of art museums as art installations. Shakespeare said, "All the world's a stage." The same might be said of art ("All the world's a canvas"?)
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