A work of art, to me, can teach us a lot about the artist them self, the history and culture of the artist, and about humanity.
For example, a piece of art from the Renaissance will tell us about the ways of dressing, the housing, and perhaps articles that are found beautiful or ugly, due to the cultural values. A piece of art can also tell us about the history of the time, because it tells us what was happening at the time. Pictures of war show how warriors at that time fought, pictures of hurricanes and earthquakes are proof that the historical accuracies are correct, and sculptures from the Romans tell us that the gods were idolized.
Pieces of theatre or dance show us what was culturally valued. "A Dolls House" shows us the Victorian values and life, and Shakespeare's plays teach us how life was actually complicated for the life of the rich. Dance pieces, such as the Nutcracker, show us what people would enjoy.
Art can also teach us about different people. Dadaism shows us that the artist might be cynical about the culture they live in, and a piece of theatre can show us what has happened to that person in their past.The dance "relevation" shows us how African Americans, and in particular, the choreographer, felt about the need for equality in the world.
As Sir Ken Robinson alluded to in his TED speech concerning today’s education system, much emphasis is put on traditional subjects such as English, Math and Science, while the Arts, in particular, are often neglected. This is a shame, as the arts have so much to offer. Art can teach us a wide variety of things. First of all, art can teach us about ourselves. Especially in our years of self-discovery, art acts as a vent through which we can express and find ourselves. Even if the art is not made by you, artworks expand our horizon and help us understand ourselves in terms of what we agree with, what we don’t agree with and so on. A great example of this was present in the Art Exhibition at ZIS during the Arts Festival. Philipp Eble’s untitled piece concerning abortion provoked viewers to think about the topic and form their own opinion by seeing it from another’s point of view. Furthermore, as Carlyle mentioned in the comment above, art is of immeasurable historical value. Paintings, sculptures, scripts and more recently, recordings, all act as a time capsule which help us understand the past. They show us how our ideas of beauty have evolved over time, as well as providing us with snapshots of how people felt in correspondence to events in the past. This is why especially in history art is extremely valuable in providing us with a well-rounded image of not only what happened, but what the public reaction was to the event. Not only does art help us understand the past, it also gives us a better picture of the present. While facts and figures provides with an idea of what is happening around the world, it is art that allows us to put ourselves in the shoes of people in other countries and experience their emotions and views. In conclusion, Art is an extremely powerful medium which helps educate the masses on a variety of matters, be it self-discovery, history or current issues.
Inspired by "The Simple Things", a photograph by 10th grade Laura Antuna, I came to the conclusion that art can teach us almost anything. Like stated in her description, "many images can seem simplistic in other's eyes, but the beauty in that is the ability to form your own story with whatever you perceive". I completely agree with this statement.
Along with the infinite number of story possibilities come an infinite number of lessons to be learnt from them. This again leads me back to my initial statement. Because art is up to interpretation, even if its message was meant to be something concrete, we, as individuals, could learn completely different things from one same work of art.
This is the beauty and power of art. It can portray thousands of messages, either good or bad, but definitely always teaching us something.
Personally I think that art can teach us a lot about other people. It can teach us to see the world from a different perspective and realize how other people perceive the world around you. It is really very interesting to notice how your surroundings can be manipulated into something that you alone would not have noticed but through the lense of art your insight is made possible. Inspired by a photograph taken by Rachel Iacono, I was forced to realize the alertness and ability that quality art work requires from the artist. by this I mean that an artist, especially in photography, must be alert and quick in order to capture the precise moment in time in order to portray the desired message. The photograph taken by Rachel Iacono was of a church floor but there was one plot of sunlight on the floor and through using herself as a configuration of a shadow on the floor. This made me realize that I probably would never have realized that my shadow would make an interesting picture, which in turn gave me insight upon the gift that this particular photographer had. I think that the more original the art piece the more you can learn about the artist and perhaps try to understand their inspiration and what message they want to convey through the art piece.
I think that works of art are perfect mediums for provoking discussion and thereby also broadening our perspectives, if we allow them to. As Saskia mentioned above, each art piece has multiple interpretations that can be drawn by each individual viewer, depending on their own context (cultural, socio-economic, ethnic etc.).
At the Art Exhibition I was particularly interested in the photograph taken by Chloe Rasquinet, “After all we’re all human”. Depicting a drunken man dressed up as Santa Claus, I was struck not only by how original but also by how provocative this image was. After thinking about the meaning, I came to the conclusion that the artist was trying to portray the loss of innocence. It seemed as though a child had accidentally opened the door to find Santa passed out on the bed and their hope had been crushed.
I was later telling my sister about the photo and she disagreed with my interpretation, saying that she thought that it meant that we can’t always have such high expectations from everybody, after all everyone is human. She thought that the artist had used Santa as an example of people who have a lot of pressure thrust upon them, which is common in our modern day world. In her mind the image was trying to portray that these people, no matter how brilliant they are, are still human and people sometimes underestimate this which can lead to negative consequences.
Her point of view broadened my perspective of the work and I saw it in a completely different light. It also made me think about her interpretation and how that affected me and my world. Furthermore I realized that it is one thing to learn from your own explanation of a piece of art, but we can actually learn even more from the discussion that artwork provokes. The conversations about a piece of artwork are as limitless as the interpretations of that work. Therefore they do not only broaden our understanding of the piece but also of ourselves and the world around us through the ideas that the discussion brings up.
Aline Aronsky's photograph "Society Killed the Teenager" depicts a teenage girl who is facing directly into the camera, except for the fact, that her face, is replaced by a picture of barbies face.
When I first saw this photograph I thought of materialism and how are modern world has bad values, and how so many teenagers think the most important thing about somenone is their face.It taught me that we should be ourselves and be someone who we are not. It portrayed the ridiculous ideology of wanting to be perfect and how barbie is modern societies perfection. Generally, this photograph made me think of the big picture, beauty in the world, and he little pictur, what does it mean for me to be beautiful. I think art doesn't only teach us about the artist, as carlyle mentioned, but also about life in general. I think what most artists want, is for us to reflect upon the art and use it to improve ourselves. Art makes us think and very powerful art my make us change our lifes for the better and change the world for the better. As some othersmentioned already, art makes us question values and thoughts and it often makes us question our society.
Art is more than just a canvas or an object. Throughout the years many people have been specializing in art and all the different aspects behind it. Just like old literary works, art can be a form of knowledge that, when it is being kept well, can provide us a lot of information. In my opinion the idea and meaning behind the art can be a lot more valuable than the piece itself.
When looking at all the artworks in our school, the piece that taught me something I was totally unaware of is the piece 'Life is short' by Philip Schweizer. This piece is based on a tribe in New Guinea where most people die at an age of 30. This is not caused by a disease or anything like that, it's caused by themselves. These people live in their sheds which they built themselves, they cook and sleep in it. In order to cook their food they need to create a fire which releases a lot of smoke. Day in and day out they inhale the smoke which causes their lungs to be filled with it. Due to this problem they die at a really early age.
This is a typical case of an art piece that teaches us things we would never think of before seeing it, therefore I am positive that we can learn a lot from art. Not only historical things, but also things that concern other people all over the globe.
Art is the window into another time, setting, or experience. Above, Carlyle gives a great example on how a piece from the Renaissance can deduce the fashion, the behavior amongst other ideas from the time. Debatably, art can be a form of studying. An artist and a physicist can study light, but in two different ways.
To talk about, I chose the photo "After all we're human" by Chloe R. to talk about. It depicts a figure very similar to santa clause, lying down on a bed. The piece of art is interesting because it's quite unusual and rather rare to see someone dressed up at santa clause sleeping or lying down on a bed. Furthermore what we can learn from the picture is that this santa figure must be quite exhausted and based on the theory that he's been carrying out presents all day, he has every right to be.
Art is the most ancient form of recording history. The cavemen had cavepaintings of what their everyday life would be like and without those we wouldn't have known how they lived their lives. Art is essential to teach future generations of what was popular, how to be rebellious, where the limits where, how to pursue a revolution by the use of a paintbrush.
I think that a work art is a way of provoking thought and discussion, as well as widening our way of looking at things. Every piece of art has multiple interpretations that can be made by the individual viewer. Looking at Annalea Maurer’s photograph “Evanescence”, it shows a photograph of a young child in a glass jar fading away overtime. This picture stuck out at me because I thought it was quite sad watching the picture of the happy child fade away to nothing. Then I interpreted that this picture is representing how our childhood and innocence over time fades away till we have no more. When discussing this with Annalea, she then told me that I was partially correct. The photograph was depicting how exposure to technology at a young age takes away our childhood experiences. How the modern generation is exposed to technology at such a young age that the childhood experiences that we had they will not. Looking back, I do not see how the photograph depicts technology. This shows how art is up to interpretation, and the interpretation of one individual can be different from another individual depending on their culture, socio-economic, ethnic, etc… Everyone has different ways of processing information and coming to a conclusion.
What can we learn from a work of art? Well, in my opinion, it does not all depends on the artist. Some messages the art conveys are intentional, while others are not. It also very much depends on the viewer. An artist once said that once a work of art is complete, it takes on a life of its own, and new subliminal messages may arise in the viewers' mind. In the art gallery, I looked at Olivia Alexander's photograph taken of a hand holding a cigarette against a railroad track, where the color white strikingly stands out against the black. This taught me nothing, nor did it evoke any reaction from me. It was a nice picture, certainly artistic, but I did not *learn* anything. But let's look at it differently. What is *learn*? Do you mean about a culture, a skill? Or do you just mean as a whole, like, that railroads are white, rain makes road shine?
There is much to gain from art, varying according to each piece of work. If the piece of work,however, is meaningless then the viewer gains,in my opinion, nothing out of the piece. Art acts as a gateway into the artists mind and their perception of the interior and exterior world. One can either learn something about themselves through the piece or perhaps from a historic aspect, they can learn about what painting, dress and culture was like back in the time when the piece was created. Historians also utilize them to piece together information about what happened in the past. A piece of art can always be "beautiful" yet nothing can be gained from it. During our visit to the school art exhibition, I was intrigued by the piece of art by Julia Motta. It was two sheer pieces of a certain material. On one was the face of a child and then on the second sheet there was the face of the child but in adulthood. It was my senses decieving me. As I approached the exhibit, the child's face evolved into the adult's face. This piece shows how sometimes the carefree and happy world of a child seems like a nice place to go back to during adulthood, when you are bombarded with responsibilities. Although I am not near adulthood yet, the piece made me think how nice it would be to return back to preschool. Instead of getting loads of homework, studying for exams and worrying about CAS hours, I could run in the playground and my biggest worry would be what snack they would have for snack time. Sometimes it is nice to think of a refuge.
Here is the entry from Moritz: From the pictures and paintings we looked at, at the arts festival, I especially liked the collage by Emily Kessler. I found this painting so special because there were so many different things you could see in it and because I liked the combination between the different smaller paintings and the collage effect.
For me this is one of the pieces of art, in which everybody sees different things, different structures and different meanings. I think a picture or painting can be considered as art, if everybody interprets it differently and if it means something else to every person.Those kind of paintings are the ones that we can learn from, as it makes us think about it. This is not the case for every picture that is considered as 'art'.
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What can we learn from a work of art?
ReplyDeleteA work of art, to me, can teach us a lot about the artist them self, the history and culture of the artist, and about humanity.
For example, a piece of art from the Renaissance will tell us about the ways of dressing, the housing, and perhaps articles that are found beautiful or ugly, due to the cultural values.
A piece of art can also tell us about the history of the time, because it tells us what was happening at the time. Pictures of war show how warriors at that time fought, pictures of hurricanes and earthquakes are proof that the historical accuracies are correct, and sculptures from the Romans tell us that the gods were idolized.
Pieces of theatre or dance show us what was culturally valued. "A Dolls House" shows us the Victorian values and life, and Shakespeare's plays teach us how life was actually complicated for the life of the rich. Dance pieces, such as the Nutcracker, show us what people would enjoy.
Art can also teach us about different people. Dadaism shows us that the artist might be cynical about the culture they live in, and a piece of theatre can show us what has happened to that person in their past.The dance "relevation" shows us how African Americans, and in particular, the choreographer, felt about the need for equality in the world.
Art teaches us how others live.
As Sir Ken Robinson alluded to in his TED speech concerning today’s education system, much emphasis is put on traditional subjects such as English, Math and Science, while the Arts, in particular, are often neglected. This is a shame, as the arts have so much to offer.
ReplyDeleteArt can teach us a wide variety of things. First of all, art can teach us about ourselves. Especially in our years of self-discovery, art acts as a vent through which we can express and find ourselves. Even if the art is not made by you, artworks expand our horizon and help us understand ourselves in terms of what we agree with, what we don’t agree with and so on. A great example of this was present in the Art Exhibition at ZIS during the Arts Festival. Philipp Eble’s untitled piece concerning abortion provoked viewers to think about the topic and form their own opinion by seeing it from another’s point of view.
Furthermore, as Carlyle mentioned in the comment above, art is of immeasurable historical value. Paintings, sculptures, scripts and more recently, recordings, all act as a time capsule which help us understand the past. They show us how our ideas of beauty have evolved over time, as well as providing us with snapshots of how people felt in correspondence to events in the past. This is why especially in history art is extremely valuable in providing us with a well-rounded image of not only what happened, but what the public reaction was to the event.
Not only does art help us understand the past, it also gives us a better picture of the present. While facts and figures provides with an idea of what is happening around the world, it is art that allows us to put ourselves in the shoes of people in other countries and experience their emotions and views.
In conclusion, Art is an extremely powerful medium which helps educate the masses on a variety of matters, be it self-discovery, history or current issues.
Inspired by "The Simple Things", a photograph by 10th grade Laura Antuna, I came to the conclusion that art can teach us almost anything. Like stated in her description, "many images can seem simplistic in other's eyes, but the beauty in that is the ability to form your own story with whatever you perceive". I completely agree with this statement.
ReplyDeleteAlong with the infinite number of story possibilities come an infinite number of lessons to be learnt from them. This again leads me back to my initial statement. Because art is up to interpretation, even if its message was meant to be something concrete, we, as individuals, could learn completely different things from one same work of art.
This is the beauty and power of art. It can portray thousands of messages, either good or bad, but definitely always teaching us something.
Personally I think that art can teach us a lot about other people. It can teach us to see the world from a different perspective and realize how other people perceive the world around you. It is really very interesting to notice how your surroundings can be manipulated into something that you alone would not have noticed but through the lense of art your insight is made possible.
ReplyDeleteInspired by a photograph taken by Rachel Iacono, I was forced to realize the alertness and ability that quality art work requires from the artist. by this I mean that an artist, especially in photography, must be alert and quick in order to capture the precise moment in time in order to portray the desired message. The photograph taken by Rachel Iacono was of a church floor but there was one plot of sunlight on the floor and through using herself as a configuration of a shadow on the floor. This made me realize that I probably would never have realized that my shadow would make an interesting picture, which in turn gave me insight upon the gift that this particular photographer had.
I think that the more original the art piece the more you can learn about the artist and perhaps try to understand their inspiration and what message they want to convey through the art piece.
I think that works of art are perfect mediums for provoking discussion and thereby also broadening our perspectives, if we allow them to. As Saskia mentioned above, each art piece has multiple interpretations that can be drawn by each individual viewer, depending on their own context (cultural, socio-economic, ethnic etc.).
ReplyDeleteAt the Art Exhibition I was particularly interested in the photograph taken by Chloe Rasquinet, “After all we’re all human”. Depicting a drunken man dressed up as Santa Claus, I was struck not only by how original but also by how provocative this image was. After thinking about the meaning, I came to the conclusion that the artist was trying to portray the loss of innocence. It seemed as though a child had accidentally opened the door to find Santa passed out on the bed and their hope had been crushed.
I was later telling my sister about the photo and she disagreed with my interpretation, saying that she thought that it meant that we can’t always have such high expectations from everybody, after all everyone is human. She thought that the artist had used Santa as an example of people who have a lot of pressure thrust upon them, which is common in our modern day world. In her mind the image was trying to portray that these people, no matter how brilliant they are, are still human and people sometimes underestimate this which can lead to negative consequences.
Her point of view broadened my perspective of the work and I saw it in a completely different light. It also made me think about her interpretation and how that affected me and my world. Furthermore I realized that it is one thing to learn from your own explanation of a piece of art, but we can actually learn even more from the discussion that artwork provokes. The conversations about a piece of artwork are as limitless as the interpretations of that work. Therefore they do not only broaden our understanding of the piece but also of ourselves and the world around us through the ideas that the discussion brings up.
Aline Aronsky's photograph "Society Killed the Teenager" depicts a teenage girl who is facing directly into the camera, except for the fact, that her face, is replaced by a picture of barbies face.
ReplyDeleteWhen I first saw this photograph I thought of materialism and how are modern world has bad values, and how so many teenagers think the most important thing about somenone is their face.It taught me that we should be ourselves and be someone who we are not. It portrayed the ridiculous ideology of wanting to be perfect and how barbie is modern societies perfection.
Generally, this photograph made me think of the big picture, beauty in the world, and he little pictur, what does it mean for me to be beautiful. I think art doesn't only teach us about the artist, as carlyle mentioned, but also about life in general. I think what most artists want, is for us to reflect upon the art and use it to improve ourselves. Art makes us think and very powerful art my make us change our lifes for the better and change the world for the better. As some othersmentioned already, art makes us question values and thoughts and it often makes us question our society.
Art is more than just a canvas or an object. Throughout the years many people have been specializing in art and all the different aspects behind it. Just like old literary works, art can be a form of knowledge that, when it is being kept well, can provide us a lot of information. In my opinion the idea and meaning behind the art can be a lot more valuable than the piece itself.
ReplyDeleteWhen looking at all the artworks in our school, the piece that taught me something I was totally unaware of is the piece 'Life is short' by Philip Schweizer. This piece is based on a tribe in New Guinea where most people die at an age of 30. This is not caused by a disease or anything like that, it's caused by themselves. These people live in their sheds which they built themselves, they cook and sleep in it. In order to cook their food they need to create a fire which releases a lot of smoke. Day in and day out they inhale the smoke which causes their lungs to be filled with it. Due to this problem they die at a really early age.
This is a typical case of an art piece that teaches us things we would never think of before seeing it, therefore I am positive that we can learn a lot from art. Not only historical things, but also things that concern other people all over the globe.
What can we learn from a work of art?
ReplyDeleteArt is the window into another time, setting, or experience. Above, Carlyle gives a great example on how a piece from the Renaissance can deduce the fashion, the behavior amongst other ideas from the time.
Debatably, art can be a form of studying. An artist and a physicist can study light, but in two different ways.
To talk about, I chose the photo "After all we're human" by Chloe R. to talk about. It depicts a figure very similar to santa clause, lying down on a bed. The piece of art is interesting because it's quite unusual and rather rare to see someone dressed up at santa clause sleeping or lying down on a bed. Furthermore what we can learn from the picture is that this santa figure must be quite exhausted and based on the theory that he's been carrying out presents all day, he has every right to be.
Art is the most ancient form of recording history. The cavemen had cavepaintings of what their everyday life would be like and without those we wouldn't have known how they lived their lives. Art is essential to teach future generations of what was popular, how to be rebellious, where the limits where, how to pursue a revolution by the use of a paintbrush.
I think that a work art is a way of provoking thought and discussion, as well as widening our way of looking at things. Every piece of art has multiple interpretations that can be made by the individual viewer.
ReplyDeleteLooking at Annalea Maurer’s photograph “Evanescence”, it shows a photograph of a young child in a glass jar fading away overtime. This picture stuck out at me because I thought it was quite sad watching the picture of the happy child fade away to nothing. Then I interpreted that this picture is representing how our childhood and innocence over time fades away till we have no more.
When discussing this with Annalea, she then told me that I was partially correct. The photograph was depicting how exposure to technology at a young age takes away our childhood experiences. How the modern generation is exposed to technology at such a young age that the childhood experiences that we had they will not. Looking back, I do not see how the photograph depicts technology.
This shows how art is up to interpretation, and the interpretation of one individual can be different from another individual depending on their culture, socio-economic, ethnic, etc… Everyone has different ways of processing information and coming to a conclusion.
What can we learn from a work of art? Well, in my opinion, it does not all depends on the artist. Some messages the art conveys are intentional, while others are not. It also very much depends on the viewer. An artist once said that once a work of art is complete, it takes on a life of its own, and new subliminal messages may arise in the viewers' mind.
ReplyDeleteIn the art gallery, I looked at Olivia Alexander's photograph taken of a hand holding a cigarette against a railroad track, where the color white strikingly stands out against the black. This taught me nothing, nor did it evoke any reaction from me. It was a nice picture, certainly artistic, but I did not *learn* anything.
But let's look at it differently. What is *learn*? Do you mean about a culture, a skill? Or do you just mean as a whole, like, that railroads are white, rain makes road shine?
There is much to gain from art, varying according to each piece of work. If the piece of work,however, is meaningless then the viewer gains,in my opinion, nothing out of the piece. Art acts as a gateway into the artists mind and their perception of the interior and exterior world. One can either learn something about themselves through the piece or perhaps from a historic aspect, they can learn about what painting, dress and culture was like back in the time when the piece was created. Historians also utilize them to piece together information about what happened in the past. A piece of art can always be "beautiful" yet nothing can be gained from it. During our visit to the school art exhibition, I was intrigued by the piece of art by Julia Motta. It was two sheer pieces of a certain material. On one was the face of a child and then on the second sheet there was the face of the child but in adulthood. It was my senses decieving me. As I approached the exhibit, the child's face evolved into the adult's face. This piece shows how sometimes the carefree and happy world of a child seems like a nice place to go back to during adulthood, when you are bombarded with responsibilities. Although I am not near adulthood yet, the piece made me think how nice it would be to return back to preschool. Instead of getting loads of homework, studying for exams and worrying about CAS hours, I could run in the playground and my biggest worry would be what snack they would have for snack time. Sometimes it is nice to think of a refuge.
ReplyDeleteHere is the entry from Moritz:
ReplyDeleteFrom the pictures and paintings we looked at, at the arts festival, I especially liked the collage by Emily Kessler. I found this painting so special because there were so many different things you could see in it and because I liked the combination between the different smaller paintings and the collage effect.
For me this is one of the pieces of art, in which everybody sees different things, different structures and different meanings.
I think a picture or painting can be considered as art, if everybody interprets it differently and if it means something else to every person.Those kind of paintings are the ones that we can learn from, as it makes us think about it. This is not the case for every picture that is considered as 'art'.