Art is what ever we ourselves decide it is. One of my favorite art peices found on deviantart.com in early 2004. I think the first time i saw
this picture i stared at it for about 20 minutes trying to figure out a whole backstory for what was
happening in the picture. I have also come back to this painting several times because it just looked
so good. It was so memorable because the water and the clouds seemed so tumultious while the little
girl and her mother seem so calm. Also the fading sun and her umbrella have the same colour and is such a contrast to the grey of the sky, sea and destroyed buildings. most of the sky is covered by dark rain clouds swirling around except for a few spots where the sun shines through as it is about to go under the horizon. in the middle of the picture there are 2 women withere their backs toward us on a set of stone stairs that lead to nowhere surrounded by whirling waters and destroyed buildings. One of the women is a little girl who has a closed umbrella in her hands and is looking back towards us and the other seems to be her mother.She has her umbrella opened hiding the top
half of her body creating a beautiful silhouette after which the peice is named. what makes this
diffrent is that it is digitally painted as opposed to what i usually like in art which are photographs.
this picture invokes feelings of sadness and shock. im not sure exactly what the purpose of this
peice was or even if there was a purpose. the artist said that he wanted the work to speak for
itself and i think that its better that way.
de Duve spent most of the article trying to define what art is. he went through lots of
diffrent point of views to try and come up with a definiton to what art was. his first conclusion after pretending to be an alien was that art is what humans call art. his second conclusion was that art is what we call art. he found that those were not adiquite to define art and finally said that art is waht each of us
as individuals decide is art. he also says that as long as we are to true to what we really love and
not trying to be a snob or a snob in reverse art can be whatever we want it to be. i agree completely
with de Duve, i think that anything can be art this doesnt mean that since everything can be art nothing will be art because not every peice of art will be art to everyone else.
1 comment:
Hi Rick,
Your entry gets the prize this week for the best description of the art work. Good work! It was helpful that you posted an image, but even without it, we get an accurate sense of what is happening visually in the painting.
Your entry also gets the prize for your casual style of writing. This is something that you should work to improve for next time. I don't expect that the journal entries on your blog will be polished writing, but please keep in mind that the reader (me) needs to be able to follow your train of thought. Periods help your reader know where one idea stops and the other begins :) Especially near the end of your entry, you have several run-on sentences. You don't need to make this a formal academic style essay, but I do want you to focus on the ideas you are trying to get across without getting too sloppy. It's better to write a shorter passage that is well-crafted than a longer passage that sounds like we're talking on the phone.
Finally, it always helps to refer back to the reading for a specific passage or quote that supports your opinion. In this case, I can vaguely understand your synopsis of de Duve, but I don't get a sense of your opinion of his thoughts on art.
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