Emotions

When you see a dark painting or image, there could be different reasons for the creation of artwork. One reason for seeing a depressing, dark artwork is because the creator is feeling down at the time. Another reason is that the artist is in a "dark" period. Or maybe the artist created a dark painting to give the art emotion. Emotions plays a big role in art. Artists put their emotions in their artwork to express what they are feeling at that time. Other examples of emotion in art can be seen or heard in song, dance, literature, sculptures, and memorial artwork. Artwork that contains emotions have alot more depth to decipher than other artwork that doens't. However, I believe that all art has emotions.

Places to go Part 2

Another place to check out in downtown Atlanta is the Center for Puppetry Arts. In the past, I've been to the center for elementary and middle school field trips. I've always enjoyed going to these shows not just because of the puppets, but how the tell the story. In each puppet show that I've been to had an element of comedy to it. I think the reasons for including comedy are for the audience, which is children, and that puppets correlate with comedy. I don't believe that many people think of puppetry as art but it is. The acting, the storytelling with voices and in motion, and the singing is expressive art. The Center for Puppetry Arts isn't just for kids. They have adult workshops and their have a variety of puppet shows.

The places to go.....

All around Atlanta there are great places to look, see, and hear art. Last year, I was fortunate to see A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Shakespeare's Tavern located in Atlanta. I loved the play while reading it but I loved it even more when I got to see the characters interact. I love to go see plays. The difference between plays and movies to me is the emotions involved. I feel that way because plays are live that the emotions are much more stronger unlike movies, where you can take as many takes as the shot needs. I always enjoy going to see plays and dances at the Fox Theater. You can't help but be excited to see the show once you are inside the Fox. The last time I was at the Fox was when I saw the Alvin Ailey Performers. The art of dance is beautiful because it's another way of someone understanding of what art is. The emotions and the movement I see stirs something inside of me and causes me to think differently. I just think that emotions are the key component in understanding art.

Dreamweaver

Since we all go to tech, it's very interesting to see the school's influence on our project. In high school, I had to make a website for a project but comparing it to the project that we have to do in english now seems very elementary. After the Dreamweaver tutorial in the library, I was a little bit nervous making a website for the project because I'm not really creative in general and I'm not creative on the computer. However, I was really intrigued by Dreamweaver because of all functions you can do to create a website. I really like how Dreamweaver is for beginners to advanced people who are interested in web design.
When I started my first page for my group, it was actually kind of hard to get started. But after I starting to get used to it, I think it's really fun. I think if I was to change my major, I would change it to computer science. So far this is what my page looks like :

A Museum's End

Some people might think that museums are boring and are a waste of time, but they really aren't. If you go to a museum with bad expectations, at the end of thev visit, you views will change.In the Duncan article, she talks about a ritual's experience is to have a purpose, or an end. After, visiting a museum, the beneficial outcomes of musuems are compared to outcomes of traditional, religious rituals. When people peform some religious rituals, they are trying to seek obtain some sort of education out of it. Duncan explains that at the end of visiting a museum (museum ritual), the "visitors come away with a sense of enlightenment, or a feeling of having been spiritually nourished or resotred" (Duncan 479). Something unexpected will happen during your visit, and you will discover so many interesting things that it will be on your mind later after the visit. That's why so many people go to museums.

My experience is that I've always found something worth while in a museum. Everything in a museum is fascinating, even if the objects in the museum aren't aesthetically pleasing to look at. I really don't know when the last time I went to a museum, not including the High Museum. The Prado Museum in Spain is one art museum that I would love to go to because of the Spainish art.

My thoughts on the visual essay

The visual essay that we were assigned was actually hard to accomplish. There is so much that we could do for the assignment, but it was really about how you could all put it in one theme. I had a hard time thinking what I was going to talk about and how I was going to convey my theme through my pictures. I understood how difficult it is for photographers to convey what they want to say through their photos.

Everyone did such a great job. I really enjoyed hearing what they had to say about public art and how they incorporated that into themes. The visual essays that really stood out were the ones that were really out of the box. The evolution of the trashcan was probably my favorite just because I wouldn't have ever thought of that idea and the presentation was great. Other good ones had to do with nature and public art and advertising.

Labyrinth and Thread

In class Thursday, we discussed 4 case studies that was analyzed in the Mitchell essay. The case study that I was assigned was Labyrinth and Thread: Camera Lucida by Barthes. It basically discussed the relationship captions and images have with each other with using Barthes' book of photographs of his mother as an example. What really caught my attention is how the photographs that Barthes, used from other photographers, all relates back to his mother. How could random pictures relate back to one's mother? The answer is perception. What one person sees in a picture is different from another one's view of a picture. The captions that Barthes that describes or analyzes the picture is the "thread" that leads the observer through his book of photographs the "labyrinth". If you apply that to all pictures, you can relate that to a number of things.