Is It Art Because It’s in a Gallery?
<p>Take a look at that sculpture in the gallery above. First of all, you’re probably asking, <em>“what the heck is that?”</em> But at the same time, maybe you also feel a certain compulsion to understand it because of its setting. It is in an <em>art</em> gallery, after all.</p>
<p>The truth is, I shot this (literal) garbage with my phone camera about an hour before writing this. I was walking with my son (and our dog) and we looked at the mangled mess, apparently once a piece of furniture. My dog may have peed on it, I can’t recall.</p>
<p>We talked about whether people would consider it art if they saw it in a gallery (which I fabricated in the above image using Midjourney AI.) I was inspired by this, so when I got home, I decided to compose a scene with the broken chair in it–taken out of its original context.</p>
<p>Now be honest: <em>were you like woah, this is kinda interesting. I wonder what it means?</em> Or were you like, <em>“what is this atrocity?”</em></p>
<p>Here’s the original photo of the broken chair for comparison:</p>
<p><img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:875/1*j3ujoLx1uPZ5AErr8HIceA.jpeg" style="height:934px; width:700px" /></p>
<p>photo by author</p>
<p>Now, if a smashed chair in a gallery can be even <em>considered</em> to be art, then what about when it was in its natural habitat? Is that art? Does the “sculpture” say more in a pristine gallery then it does in a messy outdoor park? Or vice versa?</p>
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