The Whole Ball of Wax

The Whole Ball of Wax

         Humans are a species in which seeing is believing and evidence is truth. Although, what many humans often condone is how God works through people instead of supplying the tangible evidence many demand. Art to me is best understood in that way; the tangible evidence is within reach of everyone’s fingertips. From the second the first human learned to carve images into rocks to watching my mother write out her weekly grocery list. Art can be found within every crevice of this earth. In Jerry Saltz's article, The Whole Ball of Wax he begins to unravel the hidden feeling captured behind why our conciseness laments one thing art and another not.

          One example that struck me in Saltz's article was the comparison made between two pets, a cat and a dog. When the owner tells the dog to come, the dog joyfully trots over to express his love. When the same remark is made to the cat, the cat shows his admiration in a drastically different manor, as one would imagine with less affection. Although the communication is the same the responses between the two pets makes it seem as if "the cat has placed a third object between you and itself". Much how with art, the third object has to be peeled, pulled, and picked away at in order for a better understanding. Art may not be able to change the world in a day, but through thousands and thousands of year’s art has been the only influence in recording the way of life in any specific time era.

      Jackson Pollock personally shifted my whole entire view on art. He found a non-automatic way with the canvas and had he knew what he was painting he wouldn't have ever made a single mark.