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Blog Post #2

 

The first image is the famous painting,The Last Supper ,which was created by Leonardo Da Vinci in late 15th century. The Last Supper is highly awarded because of its religion meaning and art value.This painting depicts the picture that Jesus had the last supper with his apostles in Jerusalem before his crucifixion.In addition , Da Vinci painted every characters’ facial expression in detail, he fully revealed  every apostle’s thought by depicting their behavior and facial expression. Therefore, most of the viewers can feel that why this joyful supper would disclose weird ambiance.

The second image is an advertisement created by  a gambling company. This image also depicts Jesus and his apostles ,but they are not eating supper ,they are gambling. Comparing to the authentic The Last Supper, this reproduction obviously changed its original meaning .It’s a very good example to prove what Berger says in the video that reproductions of painting becoming a “form of information” .In this case , the reproduction painting conveys a message that they are a gambling company with many betting items and everybody can have fun here in an interesting manner.I believe that many people even though they are not gambler would be attracted by this vivid advertisement.Therefore ,I think this advertisement really effective.

Why Art Matters

As time passed,the definition of art has changed a lot comparing to past time.Art is not only a particular word for those elegant designs or expensive painting.Therefore ,every person can likely be in  touch with different forms of art now , once we pay more attention to those little things we never noticed before,we will realize how wonderful they are.After going through this process we can learn excellent skills which are observing tiny things and thinking deeper.The first video Why Art Matter convinced me by its clear explanation and examples.And it also answered me a question that I was wondering for a long time.Nowadays, many people live in a life of fast pace with tremendous pressures.As a result ,people now  are easily becoming colder and more angry .This situation is especially severe in some large population country and if we can’t fix this problem that the whole circumstance of society will be worse and worse.From my point of view,art probably is a good solution to solve this problem. People who have huge pressures will be always anxiety,however, sometimes these pressures don’t come from their surroundings but come from themselves.Hence,enjoying arts can not only ease their pressures but also can enrich their spiritual world.In addition,they may realize if they can stop a while and observe something deeper,they are able to clear their confused mind so that they can solve the problem from the base because they may find beauty of life now.

 

Why Art Matters (Blog #1)

Clarity,breadth and significance are the three intellectual standards showed in Why Art Matters clearly.In this video, the producer indicated that there are many arts display as different forms around us . Like what the video said,art is not only at museums ,but also exists everywhere.It could be on a  building, a park ,a wall , even on the road you step right now.One of a narrators in  the video also pointed out sometimes we need to stop and observe so that we can find  those wonderful arts around us .

The reason why I think breadth is showed in this video is because the producer covered many  aspects that how art has affected our life mentally and physically. As technology grows stronger and stronger,we have many opportunities to get in touch with visual images no matter with what device. The video also revealed that art is really close to us even though in our real life . For example,we can often see street graffiti or street music on the way home , that’s also art. Besides, the last narrator implied the key point to find art is not about art itself. having eyes of finding art is more important .

As for the significance of art,the video stated that if we can spend time in looking a little deeper at something ,we might notice many details we didn’t aware before.We can apply this skill in so many fields in life aside from art, which can make us think deeper and further.