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Wednesday, October 12, 2022
Touch God's finger at the Sistine Chapel exhibit in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh City Paper: Apparently, you don't have to visit Italy to see great Renaissance art. Soon, Pittsburgh residents will get to experience the awe-inspiring work of Michelangelo like never before: in a mall.
5 comments:
Gaby F
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The criticisms of cheapening the art are worth noting in the article. After going down a rabbit hole a few months ago about the art market myself, there is a clear difference for artists (especially nowadays) when or if they choose to sell prints or merchandise of their artworks or stick strictly to their original works. It changes the value and market of your pieces, often not being able to maintain both of those worlds simultaneously. And it’s risky to gamble on something like that. Looking at it from a grander scheme like with this installation, the critics coming from people who know art or have studied are based on facts. You lose that bit of sparkle and grandeur when something like the artwork in the Sistine Chapel is reduced to blown-up photographs displayed in a room. However, I am a firm believer that art should be more accessible. So although to an extent, this won’t look or feel like the Sistine Capel, it’s also not the point. The point is to get people excited about art. To bring it to people who may not have the resources to go to Italy themselves.
I'm actually going to this! I'm very excited. It's certainly not the same as seeing something like this in person but I am hoping to just get an appreciation for it and maybe learn a thing or two about the pieces themselves. I am excited that seemingly, the immersive art exhibits in the past few years have sparked an advanced appreciation for art in the general public's conscience. Even among theatre practitioners, I find it very hard sometimes to get people to go to museums, art is something that should be enjoyed and it's wild to me that so many people just have no interest in art appreciation. So it's very exciting for me that things like this exhibit and the immersive art exhibits are becoming a more common thing. I agree that accessibility in art is huge and I think that mainstream art is a gateway to getting people to appreciate smaller/local artists. Like theatre. So make your friends go appreciate art. Or not.
I think it is interesting to see other peoples reactions to traveling galleries like this. Many people seem to like them, like the interactiveness that they have started to include. Making it even more of an experience than galleries are by themselves. Some people do not like them for the same reason though. They think that the interactive and instagrammable moments cheapen the experience and the art that is being displayed. Personally, I think that things like this Sistine Chapel exhibit are wonderful. In this case, it is making art that is very much stationary available to a much larger audience. People who do not have the resources to go to Rome and see Michelangelo's frescoes live and in person are able to see them in a city near them that is much easier to get to than Rome. I am a big fan of making art more accessible to everyone.
I think that this is awesome and it’s something that I have considered going to. I feel like there is an emphasis on where this exhibit is located, but I don’t see an issue with it (so far at least). This art is something that I have spent time studying, and would love to see up close, regardless of location. I guess I’m not sure why individuals call it “tacky” to see these exhibits in malls, or empty warehouses… There are other types of art (like theatre) that take placed in “found” spaces, and people typically don’t have an issue with that, or even realize that they are seeing art in a non-traditional theatre space. As for the projections and holographic exhibits being tacky – I love them. I feel like I’m an average person interested in art and art history, but I see no issues with these exhibits. For a lot of people, seeing fine art in that format gains their interest. I strongly believe that a huge “immersive” (projected) exhibit of something like Van Gogh’s sunflowers would get more traction (and make more money) than an exhibition room filled with several of Van Gogh’s sunflowers in frames on the wall…
I can see it now. Churches making announcements after mass is over, forcing people to remain standing as they read off bulletin news for the congregation and they tell them they can go the mall and walk through Michelangelo’s art and feel God’s presence in the paint this Thursday and Friday as they make a church excursion. And honestly? I can see my mom making me go with her to this if she could. I don’t know, I’m always thinking about her because I haven’t seen in her so long but I know she would make me take her by the arm, hold her coat, and walk with her through the entire exhibit. Maybe she’d make me take a picture with her and some of the paintings but I’d laugh at her. And maybe we’d go to church together after and it would be so lovely. It’s an experience of feeling God, but being with him and the people you love too. And that’s what art can do.
5 comments:
The criticisms of cheapening the art are worth noting in the article. After going down a rabbit hole a few months ago about the art market myself, there is a clear difference for artists (especially nowadays) when or if they choose to sell prints or merchandise of their artworks or stick strictly to their original works. It changes the value and market of your pieces, often not being able to maintain both of those worlds simultaneously. And it’s risky to gamble on something like that. Looking at it from a grander scheme like with this installation, the critics coming from people who know art or have studied are based on facts. You lose that bit of sparkle and grandeur when something like the artwork in the Sistine Chapel is reduced to blown-up photographs displayed in a room. However, I am a firm believer that art should be more accessible. So although to an extent, this won’t look or feel like the Sistine Capel, it’s also not the point. The point is to get people excited about art. To bring it to people who may not have the resources to go to Italy themselves.
I'm actually going to this! I'm very excited. It's certainly not the same as seeing something like this in person but I am hoping to just get an appreciation for it and maybe learn a thing or two about the pieces themselves. I am excited that seemingly, the immersive art exhibits in the past few years have sparked an advanced appreciation for art in the general public's conscience. Even among theatre practitioners, I find it very hard sometimes to get people to go to museums, art is something that should be enjoyed and it's wild to me that so many people just have no interest in art appreciation. So it's very exciting for me that things like this exhibit and the immersive art exhibits are becoming a more common thing. I agree that accessibility in art is huge and I think that mainstream art is a gateway to getting people to appreciate smaller/local artists. Like theatre. So make your friends go appreciate art. Or not.
I think it is interesting to see other peoples reactions to traveling galleries like this. Many people seem to like them, like the interactiveness that they have started to include. Making it even more of an experience than galleries are by themselves. Some people do not like them for the same reason though. They think that the interactive and instagrammable moments cheapen the experience and the art that is being displayed. Personally, I think that things like this Sistine Chapel exhibit are wonderful. In this case, it is making art that is very much stationary available to a much larger audience. People who do not have the resources to go to Rome and see Michelangelo's frescoes live and in person are able to see them in a city near them that is much easier to get to than Rome. I am a big fan of making art more accessible to everyone.
I think that this is awesome and it’s something that I have considered going to. I feel like there is an emphasis on where this exhibit is located, but I don’t see an issue with it (so far at least). This art is something that I have spent time studying, and would love to see up close, regardless of location. I guess I’m not sure why individuals call it “tacky” to see these exhibits in malls, or empty warehouses… There are other types of art (like theatre) that take placed in “found” spaces, and people typically don’t have an issue with that, or even realize that they are seeing art in a non-traditional theatre space. As for the projections and holographic exhibits being tacky – I love them. I feel like I’m an average person interested in art and art history, but I see no issues with these exhibits. For a lot of people, seeing fine art in that format gains their interest. I strongly believe that a huge “immersive” (projected) exhibit of something like Van Gogh’s sunflowers would get more traction (and make more money) than an exhibition room filled with several of Van Gogh’s sunflowers in frames on the wall…
I can see it now. Churches making announcements after mass is over, forcing people to remain standing as they read off bulletin news for the congregation and they tell them they can go the mall and walk through Michelangelo’s art and feel God’s presence in the paint this Thursday and Friday as they make a church excursion. And honestly? I can see my mom making me go with her to this if she could. I don’t know, I’m always thinking about her because I haven’t seen in her so long but I know she would make me take her by the arm, hold her coat, and walk with her through the entire exhibit. Maybe she’d make me take a picture with her and some of the paintings but I’d laugh at her. And maybe we’d go to church together after and it would be so lovely. It’s an experience of feeling God, but being with him and the people you love too. And that’s what art can do.
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