sobota, 9 marca 2013

FUNFAIR - happiness and art ?

In front of my house in Gent, there is a huge funfair for adults, teenagers and children. Since two weeks lots of people come there and try different attractions.  The reactions are various - some of them laugh very loudly, some scream, and some say nothing.
What connects them is the reason why they come to such place - RECREATION.


Therefore, I have been thinking about the place of 'funfair' in the social life.
Is it an ART or just a place which give participants and also observants HAPPINESS?
Or maybe both?



On the one hand, it for sure gives a lot of pleasure and amusement.The word fair comes from the Latin word feria, meaning a holiday. People come there to have fun, to feel a little or a lot of adrenaline, to spend time with family and friends, to eat some delicious snacks - isn't that a definition of happiness?


On the other hand, 'funfair' is a travelling show which is prepared for a long time by lots of people.
And 'art' is a broad range of human activities and also their products. Most of them are visual arts, and architecture is one of them. I think that 'funfair' may be included into this category.

One of the functions of an art is entertainment - funfair brings positive emotions.





That's why I think that 'funfiar' is a piece of art which brings pleasure.