“How To See The World”, Nicholas Mirzoeff
“It is now clear that modern visual technology is a part of that learning process. Seeing is changing”
Because everyday the world is developing further and further we are exposed to new ways of learning how to see the world. The author mentions that new studies have come out of how playing video games improves hand-eye coordination; something like video games aren't really seen as educational but have managed to improve a helpful function.
“Seeing the world is not about how we see but about what we make of what we see. We put together an understanding of the world that makes sense from what we already know or think we know.”
I think this is a very interesting observation, and one that I feel like is pretty obvious but not at the same time. Of course the way we see the world is through how we interpret the world or what we learn from it. It’s kind of like a collection, we collect knowledge from the world and use it to go about our everyday lives.
“Ways of Seeing”, John Berger
“ A painting could speak to the soul - by way of what it referred to, but never by the way it envisaged.”
Personally, I understood this as a painting could speak to you but not in the specifically in the way that the artist intended it to.
“Art history has totally failed to come to terms with the problem of the relationship between the outstanding work and the average work of the European tradition.”
I think this is such an interesting topic that should be talked about more! It is said that the painting of Mona Lisa is in itself mediocre and only famous because of its history of being stolen. People from all over the world fly to see the Mono Lisa and ignore other astonishing paintings just because the painting is famous. At the end of the day the painting itself doesn’t matter but its virality.
“Wangechi Mutu Dresses Critique in Freakishly Beautiful Disguises”, Stephanie Cash
“Because of her figures’ ultimate otherworldly manifestations, it was most surprising to see that they begin as rather classical drawings before they are reworked, manipulated, amputated, ornamented and otherwise transformed.”
Collaging is one of the things that really got me into art. In making these collages, I always found it fascinating what you could do with such limited resources, like images and clipping from newspapers or magazines, yet the possibilities are endless.
“As Hannah Höch once wrote: “Photomontage could be used not merely to produce things heavy with political meaning . . . but . . . one could also regard it as a means of self-expression and eventually arrive at purely aesthetic works.”
It’s really nice to hear that not all art needs to have this whole story or stance it can simply exist as something that is nice to look at. When looking at Wangechi Mutu’s work it's clear that the artist is trying to convey a certain message but there are also some that aren't as clear and can simply be seen as something visually interesting
Inspirations:
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| Wangechi Mutu, Funkalicious Fruit Field, 2007 |
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| Wangechi Mutu, Shy side-eye, 2015 |
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