Greek Art Analysis

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When understanding beauty, we define it as a combination of qualities, such as shape, color, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially our eye-sight. While looking at people or objects, we tend to only look at the external appearance, disregarding the deeper meaning. The object I chose is nothing spectacular, but I consider it beautiful in its simplest form yet deeper meaning. The object, is a pink canvas with the outline of the Eastern European country Romania. At the bottom, right corner of this outline is a heart, placed over the city of Bucharest. At first glance, this object may not seem exceptionally appealing to the eye or flashy. Those looking at it do not understand the importance and extrinsic value. If you take a step back and …show more content…
What I know are the things I have read or have been told. This being the case, what I have grown up with in America is obviously different than what I could have had in Romania. The people that adopted me, my mom and dad, have given me everything I could have ever wanted in life, just like parents would do for a biological child. In class, we discussed the case study on Art, specifically fake art. When listening to the conversation, I made some connections to adoption. The first connection is the idea of “fake blood”, or in other words a child/parent relationship that is not connected by blood. Many families have issues with this because some believe it is impossible to love a child that is not “your own” but in reality, after many years of investing time into a relationship, many families become just as close as those who are truly related. The beautiful thing about this so called “fake blood” is that you can build a relationship from something that is considered out of the ordinary. No matter blood related or not, that child will grow up to love you, because you gave them a forever home. Another thing I thought of during the discussion was that, when children are given up for adoption, they are given up

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