| The Metropolitan Museum of Art. This museum | | | | many of the Pacific coast tribes. Tiki gods by |
| displays the some of the most heralded | | | | those in the Pacific islands. These Native American |
| sculptures in the world. The National Gallery of | | | | pieces of art do have a great amount of natural |
| Art. America's national museum of art, displaying | | | | beauty to them. They were surely carve with |
| works of old America, including Native American | | | | great care, with primitive tools, and by true |
| artwork and sculptures. The Museum of Modern | | | | artists. These pieces of art will frequently appear |
| Art. The cutting edge museum displaying more | | | | in museums, as they truly are great pieces of art, |
| confusing and controversial works of art. | | | | manufactured in such a primitive form that they |
| However, perhaps the most controversial form of | | | | are important pieces. |
| artwork today is not on display in the Museum of | | | | However, viewing the unique antique tools used to |
| Modern Art. Instead, this form of artwork is on | | | | make the Native American artwork so important |
| display in a Brooklyn firehouse. The form- | | | | as a criteria for making their artwork art, this |
| Chainsaw Art. | | | | must be compared with the brutish force of the |
| Chainsaw artists start with only a large stump of | | | | unique modern tool to create art, the chainsaw. |
| wood. The artist revs up the chainsaw and starts | | | | These chainsaw artists should have their great |
| carving away. Though it sounds like a completely | | | | artwork celebrated as well. Unfortunately, the |
| crude method of creating art, it is no less crude | | | | Metropolitan Museum of Art only displays |
| than works of artists that would splash paint on a | | | | chainsaw art based on the chainsaw's destructive |
| canvas. In fact, these chainsaw artists carve | | | | purpose, through the artistry of Gordon |
| detailed sculptures, using special chainsaw tools | | | | Matta-Clark, who believed art was using the |
| manufactured for the purpose of chainsaw | | | | chainsaw the spirit structures in two. Perhaps |
| artistry. | | | | these elite museums will begin to see the beauty |
| Wood artwork is not something new. There are | | | | of the artistry in the skilled blade of a chainsaw |
| many pieces of Native American artwork that | | | | artist. |
| have been carved out of wood. Totem poles by | | | | |
