Believing is Seeing, Creating the Culture of Art by Mary Anne Staniszewski
Reaction From Chapter 1: What is Art?
Before opening "Believing is Seeing,"I had a deep feeling of procrastination. To be honest I wasn't looking forward to reading a book that was dated, and had a book cover that looked a bit cliche. I guess I should have listened to the life lesson of not judging a book by it's cover! After reading the first FOUR chapters in only an hour I realized how sucked into this book I really was! I even flagged certain pages and quotes that caught my attention with ripped post-it notes. Some statements even made me smile-which rarely happens when reading a book for a class! Mostly, the first chapter was highly engaging for me because of the images that supported the text. When Mary visually questioned what art IS it really made me think. She was highly engaging with her questioning and supporting evidence. Most people DO consider objects and paintings from the time of the Venus of Willendorf, 25,000-20,000 B.C. until now, ART. However Mary made me think, are they really art? Were they made for artistic purposes or simply for documentation, story telling, rituals or religion? Probably a little bit of everything!! I feel like it may be a little unfair to say "this was not Art."
Stopped Motion Video : DUDE
Working on this video was a blast. My team worked so well together and had everything prepared. Our original plan was to photograph our film in black and white and also included a few extra scenes. However with the time permitted and the way in which things were panning out, we decided to omit the extra scenes. Our choice to keep the film in color was unanamous. We all loved how the blues and greens looked in our photos. I think it was a good choice. The final video turned out better than I could have imagined. The music lined up perfectly with the actions in the film. Even though it was a blast and turned out well, I'm not sure stopped animation is something I would continue to persue. It is so detail orianted and requires a TON of patience!!
Working on this video was a blast. My team worked so well together and had everything prepared. Our original plan was to photograph our film in black and white and also included a few extra scenes. However with the time permitted and the way in which things were panning out, we decided to omit the extra scenes. Our choice to keep the film in color was unanamous. We all loved how the blues and greens looked in our photos. I think it was a good choice. The final video turned out better than I could have imagined. The music lined up perfectly with the actions in the film. Even though it was a blast and turned out well, I'm not sure stopped animation is something I would continue to persue. It is so detail orianted and requires a TON of patience!!
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We will be talking much more about this. Part of Staniszewski's premise is that the label of art has only existed since the early 20th century anything made before that had another purpose and existed in a time and culture that did not have the institutions in place to classify and name something as art.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful portfolio - I look forward to your presentation.
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