The artist, and filmmaker Steve Mcqueen video installation Five Easy Pieces, familiar male athletes from the spotlight to ordinary life "filling the empty spaces in the representation of the black male in contemporary media that nowhere zone between the glorified athlete, or pop start to a thug in the street) (171). Not much has changed from the late 1990s as a society we still glorify celebrities and when they mess up or show imperfections, no longer this perfect deity that can do no harm.
In the book, New Media in Art, by Michael Rush mentions artists in the last century are experimenting more with mix media (7). Incorporating readymade objects, personal trinkets, and recyclable objects, focusing on the emotion rather than technical skills. Rush references a famous artist, Marcel Duchamp that changed the focus of what is a fine art. Duchamp for example famous piece controversial "fountain" sculpture was not considered art because it was ready-made that had no creat. However, it is an art because it was Duchamp protest towards the Art Galleries and Museums because who are they decide what is art. Art does not have definitive rules of what qualifies as art, there might be tasteful art and distasteful art (22). I think it should be up to the artist and audience to consider what is art, tasteful otherwise.
Steve McQueen is radical! (my humble opinion :)
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