Discussion Question #2

  1. John Berger argues that the way we see art will be different for the way other people might look at it, but when we add convention it can change other people’s ways of looking at the artwork it can lead to adding more questions than answers the second guess of what they once say adding more to it. This is important for many reasons as it can help you find a different message that a person might see in the art which will lead to agreeing and disagreeing with what you see, sometimes you second guess yourself on what you see in the art, however you leave with more questions than answer there are many ways to understand an artwork but none of them are incorrect.
  2. John Berger is informing us of the difference in the way we see art from looking at the television screen to the way we see an art from the museum and from a book. The difference is that the television screen gives you a few minutes to ponder and see the art it gives you little time to think about what you see then it throws you away to a commercial which leads you to lose your train of thought. When you are in a museum or in a book you have time to look over the painting as long as you want, and nothing is interrupting you from giving you an idea of what the painting is giving to you.
  3. The reason why John Berger describes the reproductions of the painting is that the art can lose its artistic value and its meaning to the people who are looking at the art from their home instead of looking at it in the original painting in the museum.

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  1. Irina Pistol

    Christopher I agree with what you have mentioned on the second paragraph, about this comparison between appreciating the artworks in real time in the museum or gallery, and artworks seen on screens. There is a different feeling, visualization, “way of seeing,” and experience when a viewer has that artwork in from of him.

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