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Monday, February 18, 2008

Yes, but is it Art?

The kernel of fine art is that it's a boundless sphere for originative people to show themselves and their positions on society. The term boundless intends that there are no bounds on what represents art. From a single line painted on a apparent achromatic canvass to a broken lavatory on a heap of rubble, from purposefully monstrous sculptures made from bit metallic element to amusing caricatures, people gain their life by breakage conventions and life so far out of the box, that they can't even see it anymore. Bearing this in mind, makes it come up as any surprise that the outgrowth of epithelial duct or packing material material tape have got emerged as a new medium in art?

Ukrainian born Mark Khaisman is taking the fine fine art human race by violent storm with his alone packing tape pieces that have already won him a host of awards, the up-to-the-minute beingness the World Trade Centre Memorial Competition, in 2003. Khaisman utilizes Plexiglas as a alkali for the layered application of semitransparent packing material tape. The pieces are hung in presence of a light, which gives the work depth and the semblance of shadow, depending on the thickness of the tape. His creative activities gaining control the kernel of his theoretical accounts to perfection, bringing them to life and implosion therapy them with spirit.

A delightfully off-the-wall website, Ducttapeguys pays court to the imaginative usages of epithelial duct tape, and congratulations the sacred tape as the nostrum for all problems. They are currently running a Duct Tape Poetry competition, offering a epithelial duct tape book or bumper spine as pick award incentives. They supply a verse form by Jim, to function as an illustration for all aspirant poets, from which the termination beautifully summarizes up the writer's feelings about the miracle tape, "Yet it saved National Aeronautics and Space Administration twice, Thanks epithelial epithelial duct tape - you're nice".

Other absorbing news points include their finalists in the Duck®brand duct tape Stuck at Prom® Scholarship Contest. A $6000 scholarship is awarded to the most originative usage of epithelial duct tape in the designing and creative activity of promenade frocks and suits. The competition is taken very seriously, with some entrants disbursement old age analysing epithelial duct tape manner trends, collecting thoughts and designing their outfits. There is also a piece on the Box Busters, who are old custody in the human race of originative usage of epithelial epithelial duct tape, and who made a duct tape plagiarist ship and now sail it on rivers in the US. On a slightly more than alarming note, you can read about the airplane olfactory organ that was fixed with tape and flown from American Capital to Texas!

Some people don't wait for acknowledgment by mainstream fine fine art galleries, and simply take their tape art to the streets. Mark Jenkins do tape babes and attaches them in unusual populace places, like on top of halt marks and within the weaponry of statues. He created the Storker Project, aimed to help the promotion of the tape people, or tapius maximus, as they are more than correctly called. He also have plant of nature, such as as Equus caballuses around poles and domestic dogs barking at birds. His work is well deserving a look. You can acquire as much enjoyment trying to descry the tape babies, as you will from appreciating their uniqueness.

Art is indeed limitless. The assorted word forms are either loved or hated by fine art critics and lovers alike. The fact that some pieces are panned by critics doesn't deny their right to be as art. Just as the fact that pieces are universally recognised as brilliant plant of art, doesn't vouch that they'll be well received by the public. Whatever the word form or medium used, unconventional pieces will always implore the question: "But is it Art?"

Recommended sites:

http://www.ducttapeguys.com/onaroll/newsletter/080106.html

http://www.khaismanstudio.com/#

http://www.xmarkjenkinsx.com

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