Has art gone bananas? Have an aesthetics discussion about whether or not bananas can be art...

1. HAS ART
GONE
BANANAS?

2. Leonardo daVinci Mona Lisa, 1503 Nathan Sawaya, 2013
Did you know that many people have different
ideas of what can be considered art? Or good
art vs. bad art?
The best thing about this is that there is no
right or wrong answer. YOU get to decide for
yourself!

3. This means that art can be a lot more than just
painting and drawing. How cool is that?
It also means that people come up with some very
strange and interesting ideas for art!
For example, this is called Bed of Ham by artist Cosimo Cavallaro
and was featured in an art gallery in 2004.
Does it
smell?

4. Now let’s
talk
bananas.
If ham can
be art, so
are we!

5. Is a plain
banana
art?
How could
you change a
banana to
make it art?
Look at these interesting ideas…

6. You could paint a banana.

7. You could make a
banana into
transportation.

8. You could
dump a pile
of 50,000
bananas into
a public
place and
call it
installation
art.

9. You could be
a strange guy
hiding in
bananas.

10. Banana choir?
Humiliated banana dog.

11. You could cut
and draw on a
banana.

13. You could poke the
banana with a pin
and let nature help
you with your
design.

14. Banana choir?
How did nature help
make this design?

15. Some other interesting
ideas…

20. http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/artist-goes-
bananas-on-cbs-news-correspondent/

21. ANNOUNCING:
CLASS BANANA ART
MUSEUM!
WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH YOUR BANANA?