But is it Art?

Sometimes I can spot art immediately. There is something pleasing about a particular shape or a juxtaposition of colours.

There is something that says "yes, I could live with that item on a daily basis" because it shows artifice (in it's original meaning).





Here is a particularly pleasing piece. by Theo Gayer Anderson. 






I rather like the precision in the intersecting forms. 

 Perhaps it appeals to the Artist in the Engineer in me.

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