Medium is the Message

This reading caused me to reexamine the way I think of art as a whole. I tend to believe that the medium of any form of art is just that, a vehicle used to get across a point or emotion. Because of this view, I have fallen prey to one of the great follies critized in the passage: believing that every medium is created equal and without predisposition. I often would say that "guns don't kill people, eople kill people." This is stupid simply becuase guns (unlike most other controversial things) have one purpose--to kill things, namely humans. To ignore the purpose of guns is ignorant.

To translate this to art, thinking that an artist chose their medium haphazardly is ignorant. The medium is equally important to the overall message of a piece, never less.