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 Berni Searle – Traces Berni Searle lived through a significant portion of the Apartheid rule in South Africa. Apartheid – as one of history’s most ruthless events of racism and discrimination between blacks and whites – it stained the first-hand impact of racial segregation into the minds and hearts of many South Africans, including Berni Searle . This article discusses one of Berni Searle’s famous artworks, Traces , and its symbolic importance and effectiveness in illustrating the segregation and racism of Apartheid. When the Apartheid rule ended, the people of South Africa were expected to somewhat just continue with their lives; forget the pain, forget the suffering… just move on. A simple request from the men and women who reaped all the benefit. But anyone who knows the extent of Apartheid will know that to even suggest simply “moving on” is an idea too ignorant for the partisans of Apartheid. The Artwork: Traces , 1999. For Berni Searle , the question was simple: ...

  Art can be anything that is created and experienced. It is the illustration of a concept through a medium and presenting it for others to experience. Here we will explore the notion of how we set up our perceptions to judge art and whether art can be objectively bad. To determine whether an artwork can be judged as ‘good’ or ‘bad’, the viewer first needs to look at what perceptions and meanings they associated with the word ‘good’ and ‘bad’.  Ask yourself these questions: What does it mean for something to be good? Equally, at what point is something  good enough  to be defined as ‘good’? And conversely, if something is not good, does this automatically make it bad? Can anything just exist without being good or bad? These questions provoke the thought of whether judgement itself is objective and subjective. Can anything be objectively judged as good or bad, if the criterion for judgement is predefined by our own biased?   The answer is yes, you do get objectiv...