How to See the World
Nicholas Mirzoeff [Chapter 2]
QUOTE 1: Indeed, it is noticeable that
people today often put more trust in a less-than-perfect photograph or video
that takes an effort to decipher than they do into a professionally finished
work, because they suspect that the latter will have been manipulated.
QUOTE 2: Ramachandran calls them "
Ghandi neurons' because they blur the boundary between the self and others —
not just metaphorically, but quite literally, since the neuron can't tell the
difference." The quality of empathy is, in the current metaphor,
hard-wired.
RESPONSE 1: My question goes, what can art be, and my answer is
that art can be imperfect, have its imperfections. For an art to be perfect it won’t
catch people’s attention and so, for the art to not be perfect it can be seen
successful because something that is so imperfect people tend to look towards
that and it gravitates a lot of attention. So, something like that, it has an
appeal and would be characterized as beauty and perfection in its way. Perfection
ruins people because it makes people go crazy trying to perfect something
almost trying to reach to an AI level of which it does not exists.
RESPONSE 2: The second quote made me feel that this is about empathy
and my mind went straight thinking about what’s been going on in Palestine and
Isreal, which it’s an ongoing war. Looking at some of the pictures and videos
of children murdered in such an amount how can Isreal not have any empathy for
these little lives that has been taken from them.
Ways of Seeing
John Berger [Chapters 4-5]
QUOTE 1: Such pictures assert two things: that the poor are happy, and that the better-off are a source of hope for the world.
QUOTE 2: The point
being made is that, among the pleasures their portrait gave to Mr and Mrs
Andrews, was the pleasure of seeing themselves depicted as landowners and this
pleasure was enhanced by the ability of oil paint to render their land in all
its substantiality.
People
who are very wealthy likes to spew out lies about the poor that they are happy
where they are at just to convince them to stay in their status and not to think
about trying to better themselves and go up. This resemblance identifies these
poor children while the smaller percentage of the higher class are seen godly
beings. Because of this, this was a way to persuade the poverty-stricken that
the rich people are the only importance in the society.
So
from this, the underprivileged are down in depression for their economic crisis.
For the lavish people meant being proud of having lands and different assets to
show off. We all want to own a home or a car and not be drowning in debt and
not experience the pressure from society influencing you to do this when you are
in a position that you can’t.
From the Archives: Wangechi Mutu Dresses Cultural Critique in Freakishly Beautiful Disguises - Stephanie Cash
1. "The work of Kenyan-born Wangechi Mutu features gorgeously grotesque creatures that range from amusingly freakish to macabre. Using ink and collage on Mylar or paper, she combines humans, animals and machines in seamless and commanding compositions full of small moments of discovery and random elements that may betray only an oblique relation to the overall image," (Cash 2023).
2. "Many viewers simply
admire her fantastical compositions and never deduce the subtle critique at
play. It’s hard to deny the work’s sheer visual delight." (Cash
2023).
The way that Cash explains in creating her works makes it
interesting. Her collages are emotional and confusing and because of this, it
draws the viewer in.
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