One More instance of People being Fooled by an Artist Prankster

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Many contemporary artworks are there, which may leave museum visitors in awe and they might question their own artistic merit. This might have come to the mind of TJ Khayatan, a 17-year old teenager from San Francisco, when he decided to play a prank on the visitors of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

He was there in the museum with his friends when he stumbled upon a strange artwork, which did not seem very impressive to him or his friends. He decided to experiment by placing his glasses on the museum floor and notice the reactions of people. It did not take long for art-lovers to gather around the artwork and they started finding meaning in it. This incidence was fairly funny as the teenagers had a laugh of their life when they clicked pictures of people staring at their work, clicking pictures of it, and analyzing the meaning behind the simplicity of the work. Many of them said that the floored glasses represent the downgrading of culture, the viewpoint of life through lens, etc.

The teenager uploaded the pictures later on social media and Tweeted about it, which garnered thousands of views and likes. Maybe for the fear of condemnation, the teenager was quick to defend himself and said, “I can agree that modern art can be a joke sometimes, but art is a way to express our own creativity. Some may interpret it as a joke, some might find great spiritual meaning in it. At the end of the day, I see it as a pleasure for open-minded people and imaginative minds.”

The prank of Khayatan transformed into a social experiment, which raises the question whether we should look for art everywhere? Or rather, should we condemn that we are not capable enough to understand the difference between a prank and an artwork?

From my viewpoint, it is time for us to introspect at this light bulb moment that we are still on the learning curve to understand true art. 

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