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"Art" basically explores the complexities of one of the world's universal truths. The play draws on the conflict between traditionalist and liberal views. The characters find themselves caught in a state of reflection of what they hold most value.
"Art" basically explores the complexities of one of the world's universal truths. The play draws on the conflict between traditionalist and liberal views. The characters find themselves caught in a state of reflection of what they hold most value.
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"Art" basically explores the complexities of one of the world's universal truths. The play draws on the conflict between traditionalist and liberal views. The characters find themselves caught in a state of reflection of what they hold most value.
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Yasmine Reza’s “Art” basically explores the complexities of one of the
world’s universal truths-the value of friendship. The plot of the story revolves around three friends who are forced to come into terms with the daunting changes that threaten to destroy their friendship. Serge, who in the act of spontaneity and wild abandon to society’s recognized norms purchases an expensive work of art worth two hundred thousand francs. His conservative friend Marc was infuriated by Serge’s unthinkable recklessness and was agape at the huge price a friend of his would spend over an artwork, which he thought, was hardly worth the value. Yvan, in an attempt to reconcile the two, falls short of committing himself to his own ideals led the quarrel to escalate even further and fails. “Art” draws on the aged conflict between traditionalist and liberal views as a means to portray the differences that may arise and at the same time tear down the foundations that sustain the making and keeping of good friends. The characters find themselves caught in a state of reflection of what they hold most value and compel them to consider the differences that exist between. Thus, the situation opens a window into a reality that allows them to take a closer look at themselves and enables them to understand the value of the one thing they hold most worth-their friendship. The play in itself is an awakening. It imposes on the audience a necessity to ask ourselves the status of our own personal relationships and enables us to contemplate the things that we believe to be of most worth in our lives. The characters for me represent the three common states of our being. Serge in his blatant stripping of society’s enforced lines of conformity symbolize our own innate desire to take the required risks in life for us to be able to progress a step higher towards our worldly ambitions. Marc’s conservative views support the nagging part inside us that wants to preserve our own conventions and conform to society’s existing traditions. Yvan exemplifies our sometimes-waning commitment to our professed ideals. He represents our own need to actually become the person we claim ourselves to be. I liked the play mainly because it exhorts a simplicity that is actually double-meaning. It plays with metaphors yet gives out a meaningful sense that is clear and direct to the point. I like that it is questioning in a sense that it forces the audience to think and thus making it intellectually stimulating and not boring. Also, it gives out a simple message about life’s intricate relationships and draws out a challenge to alter the state of our personal affairs. I guess the reason why it draws out such a welcomed response among the audience is because it probes a query that excites the latent need for enlightenment that lies deep within our humanity.