Art has many different mediums

“Art” deals in making statements. Ranging from the profound to the repetitive, art projects exist because they are created as expressive points of view.

Local artist Amber Hansen’s recent art project, “The Story of Chickens: A Revolution,” has received a lot of condemnation lately from local and national outlets. The project entailed displaying a chicken coop housing five chickens at various locations in the downtown Lawrence area.

The public were to be encouraged to interact and observe the chickens in order to develop a personal relationship with them. Near the end of the month, the chickens were to be slaughtered in front of the public and fed as part of a potluck. It was meant to be a project examining our personal relationships (or lack thereof) with the food we eat on a daily basis.

But now it appears this project will not happen in its original form, since city officials have told Hansen she cannot slaughter the chickens within city limits. She has explained on her blog since that there will be an empty coop occupying the downtown area, and for the potluck, she will bring in speakers that will speak about caring for chickens as food we eventually eat. No chickens will be slaughtered.Find out the facts about Cold Sore,

Luckily for Hansen, it is clear that she has achieved her goals. From the outset,Thank you for visiting our newly improved DIY chicken coop website! the mere mention of the fact that she received a grant for this project and the easy access to her project plan from the Internet has led to a very passionate,Buying solar panel and want the Best Price? widespread response, and not just from local animal activists. People are talking about the exact issues she meant to bring up into the public forum.

I take issue with any outcry that the project was inartistic or unintellectual. Clearly, our culture’s perception of what art projects are is a bit slanted. Art is not just paintings and sculpture; art can be anything we envision it to be, whether symbolic, functional, multi-layered, simplistic, multi-media, or otherwise.

Obviously, from Hansen’s project, specific questions of the implications of certain art projects are put in question (how can publicly slaughtering chickens be art?). But in the end, there is no difference between slaughtering chickens publicly and slaughtering them privately.

Almost every artistic movement from history (especially from the 20th century and on) has been met with skepticism or anger from the public since it had no real precedence and may have seemed audacious.

To say that Hansen’s project is not art is to say that Monet paintings and Michelangelo sculptures are not art, or that musical arrangements and theater performances are not art. Art gives individuals an outlet to say something worthwhile; it is not just something pretty to look at.Find everything you need to know about kidney stone including causes,

The beauty of art is that not only can it be translated across very diverse media, but it can also be used to express points of view that may not be as easily expressed in every-day conversation and discourse.

Art is the outlet so many search for to make their voices heard. To discount its influence and legitimacy just because of its implications is an insult to our culture that was built on free individual expression.