This semester I attended 3 events having to do with India and elements we have learned in this Cross-Cultural Psychology class. The first event I attended was the Indian American Community Tour. The main cultural experience for me took place at the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir. The beauty of this Mandir is that it’s a magnificent building dropped in the middle of a busy suburban city. I was awestruck at the Mandir’s architectural elegance. We took a few minutes before entering the mandir to take pictures and observe the building and the grounds it was on. The Mandir itself looks like a white marble palace and in front was a beautiful display of elephants spouting water into a pond which brought to me of peace of mind. Before entering the temple
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I observed two different exhibits and took notes about the artists style of painting/photography and tried to figure out the artists cultural background. The first exhibit was Tomashi Jackson: Interstate Love Song, which included artworks portraying the histories of segregation and desegregation and how it influenced the migration patterns of people of color in the Atlanta area. The artwork in this gallery all had very large focal points and often the pictures where of one person with little emphasis on background detail. The pictures that did have background details often portrayed the focal points as more colorful to draw more attention to the person and not the background. However, in some pictures the horizon was either really high or nonexistent, which I found interesting but this could have more to do with her artistic outlook. She used the space behind the focal point to depict highways, buildings, and other graphics which did add to the message she was trying to get across. I would assume that Tomashi Jackson is more of an analytical thinker being that the main theme across her artwork had a very obvious focal point, however it did show traces of holistic thinking because these focal points had subtle relationships with other elements in her artwork. She did not have much field dependence, although the different elements in her pictures did have underling relationships there were no immediate interaction between the elements in the scene and the scene often looked like a collage of pictures put into
I observed two different exhibits and took notes about the artists style of painting/photography and tried to figure out the artists cultural background. The first exhibit was Tomashi Jackson: Interstate Love Song, which included artworks portraying the histories of segregation and desegregation and how it influenced the migration patterns of people of color in the Atlanta area. The artwork in this gallery all had very large focal points and often the pictures where of one person with little emphasis on background detail. The pictures that did have background details often portrayed the focal points as more colorful to draw more attention to the person and not the background. However, in some pictures the horizon was either really high or nonexistent, which I found interesting but this could have more to do with her artistic outlook. She used the space behind the focal point to depict highways, buildings, and other graphics which did add to the message she was trying to get across. I would assume that Tomashi Jackson is more of an analytical thinker being that the main theme across her artwork had a very obvious focal point, however it did show traces of holistic thinking because these focal points had subtle relationships with other elements in her artwork. She did not have much field dependence, although the different elements in her pictures did have underling relationships there were no immediate interaction between the elements in the scene and the scene often looked like a collage of pictures put into