It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Art is about the 'I' in life not the 'we', about private life rather than public. A public life that doesn't acknowledge the private is a life not worth having.
I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.
The public needs art - and it is the responsibility of a 'self-proclaimed artist' to realize that the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for a few and ignore the masses.
I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.
Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
My art became very public.
Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.
Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.
In my regular life, I am very involved in commissions for cities and sometimes countries. And I think of public art as a team sport. The outcome is only possible with the interaction of all the players.
If people think of public art as something the public decides, it's impossible to make anything of substance.