It's strange for me to think that there was a time were ornament was looked down upon. I've always seen it as something that only extremely talented people could do and when I was younger I thought that those who made "simple" looking objects were the artists who were making "lesser art." Reading all these articles however made me feel that ornament is less about adorning something and more about just the market for artist. If an artist made an ornament that the majority could not afford suddenly that ornament was the best but if an artist made something similar that everyone could afford suddenly the object had no value. Still ornament but not treated as such. Quickly fast forwarding to the future ornament no longer was about it's symbols and meanings but we were heading into an age of design (brought to us by the Bauhaus.)
Vic Muniz took my breath away in this article! The beautiful ornaments made with trash? That was simply fantastic. It makes the viewer think about how many things we throw away when it's no longer wanted (reminded me of the the movie The Grinch with Jim Carrey) but it made me think about how ornament again just evolves and changes. Each artist had something to say with their ornaments whether it was about movement, growth, or just being playful. That was another artist that caught my eye, Jeffery Keedy. He didn't want our eyes to stop and appreciate the designs, he wanted our eyes to be running around looking for rest but not finding any. Ornament has changed but art changes constantly so why wouldn't ornament follow along beside it?
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