I'm enrolled in Ms. Key's Italian Art Class at OLLI-UTEP this summer. What I've gotten from attending are visual delights in sculpture and painting and edifices dating from the Medieval and Renaissance periods.
But what is shocking to me, who has known the art works brought to mind in the class once again, is the role of these artistic masterpieces in creating a new and modern art--namely, the art of people- watching. From the vantage point of some nearby cafe or restaurant, an onlooker is drawn to the manifold of people and things that make up a wholly new genre of artistic being: the passers-by! Look at their clothes and shoes, the packages and objects they carry along, the traffic moving about, and one enters the very artistic genre unfolding in that time and place wherein it is happening. And the evolving work has purpose and import: it reflects the need of mankind to seek meaning for all that presently transpires around him--the eternity that each masterful work of art has earned. So, gaze-watcher, enjoy another cup of coffee; next, take your place amid the others in motion, walking the promenade of an artful, useful existence!
Hooray for you, Ms. Key!
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