Reframing Public Art Essay

There are thousands of types of art work all over the world including mural art which is one of the oldest types of art, painted on walls and ceilings that are usually filled with many different colors. Murals show hope, values and memories of the community. Public art is outside of the gallery or museum, public art exist outdoors. It shapes are abstract, realistic, built, etc. Public art is can express community values, and enhance the environment. However, as our evolving culture of technology increase, more of those mural art, and public art are vanishing in the eyes of the people.

Jane Golden demonstrates the Philadelphia Anti-Graffiti Mural Art Program that has changed the appearance of the city in a positive way and that gives people a way to embrace how they feel. While Harriet F. Senie in Reframing Public Art and is stating that most public art is being ignored by people and is slipping away into urban-scape. Public art is often ignored art, we don’t know how those pieces of art are actually successful. Public art such as sculptures

She finds out that site matters, her art is like a land mark “I was here” usually captured by photos. “Nearly every sculpture in the study at one time or another served as a meeting place, providing an easily recognizable landmark.” Pg. 6 Most people don’t see art as art, only when it’s convenient to them. That’s when the land mark comes in, such as meet me by the giant dominos. Most people don’t notice the art at all. Usually art on the streets are vandalized, or invisible to many. Most public art is often ignored by immediate audience or used according to their everyday need” Pg. 1. Why even put the money out to make a couple thousand dollar sculpture, when nobody even notice it. A sculpture is a creative hard-working craft that takes months or years to make a single one that is either going to be ignored or