In the video Why art Matters by DR. Steven Zucker and DR. Beth Harris informs us “We live in a visual world understanding and looking at thinking about the way images communicate in all kind of ways it is important in being alive.” There are many images around the world that make people think and ask questions about what they see for example a painting can show you a message or give you an idea of why this person painted this image, what was their motivation, what message does this person try to send to you, but also what do you take from looking at this drawing what message do you see when you look at it. I agree with the statement presented by both DR. Steven Zucker and DR. Beth Harris, we do indeed live in a visual world in which we use images to communicate with people in a multitude of different ways. A painting can show you a variety of ways to comprehend the image which tells us that there is no correct answer to the reason.
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In the video TED-Ed, “How art can help you analyze,” in Smart history, December 20, 2015, accessed June 22, 2020, https://smarthistory.org/how-art-can-help-you-analyze/, it tells us how we can use the ability to analyze to see and to understand more than what the eye allows us to perceive. It is a normal tendency for people to think that a picture is worth a thousand words, when describing images and/or works of art. This is because, when we first see a picture/artwork, we first notice the image as a whole. However, if we pay attention to the surroundings in detail, we can find new details or pieces of information. With that, a question is posed, and we start to ask ourselves why the artist painted the painting in this way and what they are trying to explain to us. For example, the police officers go to a crime scene, they are analyzing/investigating it. We can consider the crime scene as a sort of “art”. I state this because they are looking for clues and details to find information about the culprit and/or victim. With this information, they can interpret what is going on or what happened. With this being said, sometimes explaining the art doesn’t do it any justice. Sometimes people need to look at it themselves and analyze the whole and then break the art piece down to understand it better. We can use this idea in our personal life since we always look and worry about the bigger picture first with our daily life activity instead of analyzing the small parts first to get to the ending of a project.
