Tuesday October 21, 2014 Discussion

        The discussion/field trip that we took on Tuesday was really interesting talking about art in the gallery, art in general and artists. I thought hat was really interesting question that came up was, "Why are people so afraid of art?" I never really thought about it before as a fear. What is it about art that makes it so scary? I think that art in general is not scary, but the emotions, feelings, responses and reactions is what is scary. Everyone's immediate reaction is to not say or do anything that would make others judge them in any way, so being forced to look at art and the emotions that art can bring out of a person can a scary process for many people. If people would just go in the gallery and look at it,  they will realize that it is not going to hurt you. Another interesting point that was made during this discussion was that art is marginalized. It made me wonder why? I think that art is marginalized because it isn't as common as people think it is. Those who grew up around art and who's lives are influenced by art and around art daily don't realize how many people out there who either don't like art or don't categorize it as anything legitimate. I think that all art is significant in some way or another, no matter what it is. The artist or artists who created the work had to have had some kind of meaning or purpose behind the work.