My Thoughts on the Exhibition

So when we were asked to look at the work at the Welcome Back show I was excited. I have to admit though that none of the works their popped out more than any others. Like allot of them were cool looking or interesting or funny but none of them were jaw dropping in my opinion. We were asked to find the piece of work which we liked the most and the piece of work that we liked the least. 

The piece of art that I liked the most was Tony Masso's "N-Piece"

When I first saw it I was a little confused. The piece of art is a block "N" which kind of looks like the N found on a wooden block that a child would play with. The wooden N was placed in a frame that looked elegant but it was all cracked and kinda looked destroyed. Also the N was placed to the left opposed to being centered which makes the viewer assume that another letter should be going in the spot that is blank. Like when I saw this the first thing that popped into my head was the word NO. Then I started thinking that if the letter O was next to the N there would have to be another letter next to it unless the kerning of the letters was abnormally large. Then I started playing a word game in my head. What would fit there? Not, Nor, Nah, Nip, Nib, Null. It was fun because in a way it it circled around to being a kids game again. Also, the whole project is painted the same color as the wall which is a juxtaposition for being a kids game/toy because most kids things are vibrantly painted. It raised allot of questions for me and it held my interest for more than a fraction of a second which is more than I can say about most of the other pieces of artwork that were there. Though one of the girls in the class did bring up that this piece would look great alone on a wall and I have to agree with her. Having this piece sit alone in the middle of the wall would look great.

The piece of art that I liked the least was Clifford Owen's remake of "Whipped Cream Piece (Lick Piece),"

I looked at this piece for awhile and I can't get over the fact that this piece just reminds me too much of porn. I understand it's a performance piece and I did my best to try to put some meaning behind it but it's just foreplay to me. Composition wise, I don't understand why the images are laid out the way they are. I don't understand why he is naked as well. It's a very confusing piece that made me reach a point where I didn't want to understand it. It's degrading to the woman who was there and disturbing to anyone who would actually licked this whipped cream off of her. This piece of artwork left me feeling uncomfortable and almost annoyed. I don't mean to sound harsh or rude but it's art like this that makes allot of people scoff at the art community. If there is a deep meaning behind this work then it should have been accented more. I believe this piece should have been left in 1964.