Analysis Of Beauty And Sadness By Cathy Song

For this journal entry I'll be discussing Cathy Song's poem, "Beauty and Sadness," based off the life and pictures of Kitagawa Utamaro, at his time a master in the genre he illustrated in. The poem describes the majesty of the women that Kitagawa captured in his illustrations. It describes with a certain appreciation how he captured their elegance, and captured many of them with dignity. The poem also tells of the complexity of the women he illustrated, in a way like the Mona Lisa. The poem describes Cathy Song's thoughts on these pictures and how it captured their essence within it and made the lives of these women who we wouldn't know the names of longer than them. The poem paints in its own way the moements of Kitagawa sitting there …show more content…
All could make the same moment but look severely different as the process for each way is quite different. A drawing is very individualistic based upon the hand. A computer requires learned skills in using a specific program that requires a whole degree to learn. A camera requires a perfect spot with perfect timing. Chisels require much patience and lots of time. Paint requires a painter's touch and lots of colors. A phone, for most, would require a pretty looking filter. It's possible for one person to do most, but hard for one to accomplish all. The ways of picture have changed drastically, based on what we use alone. From when pictures were only pencils, chisels, and paint now is electronically accomplished with cameras, phone, and computers. Cameras and phones lack the same amount of skill required to use a pencil or a brush, but more of an expense to get a good finished product. The exception would be the skill needed from making three dimensional images from a computer. But without knowledge of any tool to get the image we want, it would all look amateurish in the