What surprised me is how long community based art existed. It never really occurred to me that there are many forms in which such art can exist. It reminds me of a discussion I had in class about the politics of architecture and how certain designs in space can be a reaction to a political schema or can be directly used to manipulate the behaviour of large communities. It also brings up questions in how we few art today. On one hand you have aesthetically pleasing art like the works of Yayoi Kusama and on the other you have more political pieces like the works of Banksy. The "Fountain" would be a great example of something like this. From a traditional point of view, the "Fountain" would be just an average toilet, but because of the context in which it was made, the piece became a provocative piece of art that would influence a large number of artists today.
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