On The Relationship Between Publicity And Privacy Of Public Art

Public art, in generalized, refers to the artworks exhibited permanently at the public place that is opened freely to the general population. The publicity of public art involves with the relationships between artists' personal design, public sphere and public authorities. In this context, the public sphere consists of not only the environment, space, scene and the display background of the artwork, but also the social contexts and spiritual circumstances, and furthermore, the influence of artists' individual consciousness on the social culture and sensible minds also takes part in this complex. The privacy emphasises the qualitative and quantitative restriction of individuals or groups during their information exchange with others. The publicity and privacy are considered as a pair of opposites under a general understanding of public art; however, present research suggests different points of this view. Privacy of artists' consciousness will probably be involved during his/her artistic creation, but private talk could transfer to public transcript when this kind of privacy implied in the artworks touches the right chord of their spectator, thereby, a switch from privacy to publicity will be achieved.