Accidently Art

When artists go to the studio every day the things they work on can get quite repetitive. The amount of creativity that is put into most art leads artists to thinking for hours on end of their next major piece. One particular contemporary artist, Bruce Nauman was born in 1940 in the state of Indiana. Half way through college he found that business was not right for him and instead he elected to follow his true passion of becoming an artist. His work that is seen in many museums reflects a way of thinking that has progressed from his board mindset. When in his studio, he believes that everything he is doing while he is there can be considered art. This includes eating, breathing, walking, literally everything. Some may think of this as being a stretch, but if you think about it he does have an interesting point. He thinks of art as being any activity one does. If you think this is strange his work may come across as even stranger. One specific piece of art that caught my attention was his mice movie. At night he would set up a video camera and record what happened throughout the night. The next morning Bruce would sit and watch the video for hours and after quite sometime he noticed that the more he looked at nothing the more he noticed movement amongst the screen. He saw this as being a way to relax because when you focus on one part of the screen you may miss movement in another part of this screen. This he proclaimed is art and when I did what he suggested I knew what he meant and I found it very interesting so I can agree with saying that it was indeed art. His work inspired me to think more about the subtle things that may actually be a form of art.