Pilgrim At Tinker Creek By Annie Dillard Analysis

While coming upon a reading by Annie Dillard which was assigned by my drawing instructor. I have come to realize seeing is a special attribute. Annie Dillard an author, narrates her childhood in the book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. She writes on how we perceive our world and universe. One extreme example she uses people that have cataracts, or blind since birth. These people don’t know the meaning of what color, form, and distance mean. Our vision as an artist is to capture our perspective and let it be known to the world. Since, Art is a response to the world in which we live. Artist’s such as Edgar Degas, Henry Matisse, and Marcel Duchamp are three distinct people who developed their form of art. Edgar Degas a French artist from the 19th century …show more content…
Matisse The Blue Nude 1907 is an example how he challenges the Academic tradition of the Art World. Matisse responds to the world by trying to capture the average life (every day object). Matisse’s direction of The Blue nude, presents a nude woman but not the idealized academically correct version of a woman. He paints a woman who is muscular, and disproportionate of the idealized Renaissance version of a woman. Matisse then chooses to use blue to for the body. This is an example of how Matisse intensifies his experience and channels his emotions into his painting. Matisse is in a constant state of discovery and exploration. “The secret of life is that life is the secret”. (LECTURE3) Art is about discovering the mysteries of our ordinary life. Matisse use this philosophy to respond to the world we …show more content…
A question that artist Marcel Duchamp tries to answer throughout his life and work. Duchamp is an American-French Painter was one of the most influential Artist of the Dadaist inspired the American Modern Art Movement. Marcel’s painting questions of what human movement is in his painting The nude descending a Staircase #2 1912. Sadly, this would-be Duchamp’s last painting. But this painting represents the direction Marcel would take for the rest of his life. Specifically, discussing The Nude descending a Staircase #2, responds to the world as if humans are like machines with angular movement and downward motion. Duchamp believed that art shouldn’t solely be based of the aesthetics of the painting. Instead the process of art should deconstruct what we believe and construct a different possibility. This initiates internal and external