I was just wondering if you notice the artworks you walk past? Do you actually look at them?
I was walking around the corridors of this building today and noticed the painting on a wall next to the bathroom. I walk past it often, yet today I looked at it properly for the first time.
I wondered how the artist would feel about seeing his original piece of art, that he poured hours and hours of his life into, on a wall in a passage next to a toilet.
It’s an odd place for a painting, and not a place that people would naturally stop and look at something.
Paintings in corporate offices that are placed in meeting rooms and in waiting areas etc make sense to me. If I’m bored in a meeting, I do tend to study the paintings… they fascinate me.
The number of unappreciated pieces of artwork that exists in corporate offices around the globe saddens me.
Do you actually notice them?
Comments
cat@juggling act
I tned to look at paintings most of the time, even in odd places, but maybe it is because of what I do etc.
JessicaGiggles
To say I am a very aware person is quite an understatement! I regularly notice things that no-one else does – I take note of cashiers’ names and of the weird things around me. I used to do a lot of work at one of the banks’ buildings in town and there was this horrid looking dog/hyena thing. It also happened to be by the toilet which made any trip to the bathroom one of diverting my eyes/attention to a different piece of art.
Huckdoll
Haha, no. While working in a corporate office I rarely, if ever, noticed the art. At least not in my office. Sometimes I’d go into a beautiful office for a meeting and their art work would blow me away, but it looked super expensive and it was always displayed so well.
blackhuff
I don’t notice art in any office or shops. I notice them in homes when I visit someone and in my own. That is where I tend to look at them and that is why I think that it’s money thrown into the water when a company buys artwork. Very few people notice the ones in our office, so what’s the use of them in places like these?