Christmas Lights

Christmas lights can be seen everywhere around the world around Christmas time. I believe that to an extent Christmas lights are considered art. But there can be a fine line around what Christmas lights are considered art and which ones aren’t. I believe that the Christmas lights that Dominic Luberto puts up are defiantly considered art.

Dominic Luberto owns a single family house in Boston, Massachusetts. Luberto prepares for Christmas 72 days in advance. He spends $10,000 dollars in lights covering his 8,500 square foot house. He enjoys putting up the Christmas lights because he can make something plain and ordinary look beautiful. He enjoys seeing people looking at the house and seeing it was something amazing. His neighbors don’t like the Christmas display because they feel like its too bright and annoying but that doesn’t stop Luberto.

I love looking at different kinds of Christmas lights. It always brings joy to people who look at them. It’s a form of art that gets looked over often. These lights are only up around Christmas so people really don’t think about them until it gets to be winter. A lot of people put hard work into putting up Christmas lights and they should be considered artist, even though the form isn’t well known. In order for your house to look nice with lights up you have to have some sort of creativity. You have to know what looks visual appealing to people. But most people wouldn’t consider this art.

A very interesting question to ask about Christmas lights is; are they considered to be art? There is a difference between if someone strings a couple stands on lights on their house and it they go all out and plan what they are going to put up. Christmas lights are a form of public art. You could think of it as an instillation that is only up for a certain amount of time and able to be seen by anyone who would drive down that particular street. It takes a lot of time and thought into putting up all these lights. When thinking about wither this is art you have to keep in mind that even though anyone can string up a strand of light, would they be able to make a design and bring a whole house and the property and make it look beautiful. If anything Christmas lights would help to make things look less ugly. They would make the world a more beautiful place.

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