Sunday, July 8, 2007

Father and Son

Today's objet d'eBay comes from Bali, via the Craft Network Store. Can father of four Dek Wik's "Father and Son" succeed at auction? Does it succeed as art?

It certainly offers a much more colorful perspective than is usual for this relationship, but is it good art? Or does that veer too far into trying to define what ingredients are always needed and does this have them?

It is hard to reduce art that touches a viewer to a checklist -- much like you can't say what ingredients or recipes always result in wonderful or horrorful or sosoful father-child relationships.

Each recipe might have similarities, but the outcome always depends on the individuals (artist and viewer or parent and child, with the former in each pairing needing to take more responsibility).

** Where are the pop culture reference to a father and son involved together in something artistic? **

1 comment:

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