Reading Assignment #1
The Human Phenomenon & the language of Art and Architecture When I read this first chapter of my arts and culture book I realized how fascinating and important art is. Art is in everything we do whether we know it or not. It’s in every object we contain and building/structure we have ever seen. It’s also different in every culture and it a good way to communicate feelings, culture, and customs to others. An example of this I found when reading was on page 16. It was Tim Hawkinson’s Bear sculpture before I read the description I had a sense of emotion towards the sculpture right away. The sculpture took me to my childhood and my favorite bear I had. That is what art does for us. It connects to each and every one of us. …show more content…
When creating an art form of the body we need to look at “hints of character or mental state.” We need to take ourselves to the time when the art was created and realize that human are nature.
An example of the mind portion of art is when it talks about Eadweard Muybridge’s Handspring. I found this extremely fascinating because when I first looked at the image I did not realize how the picture was created of that the man was actually only doing a hand stand and not a handspring. Using twelve cameras this artist was able to do a trick of the mind and made it seem that the picture was in motion.
Another thing that stuck out to me when reading this is Hannah Wilke’s Intra-Venus. This had to deal with sickness and death and she decided to document the illness but doing so in a unique way. In the pictures the illness progressed and she posed in a way you would for playboy magazines and such. She was trying to get across that even in her illness she could reclaim her sexuality for herself. I am positive this impacted many other who have and are going through similar …show more content…
It shares many of the same traits of Jazz. Ragtime music was usually written by black pianist who earned their living playing in the houses of the “ill repute”. I found both Jazz and Ragtime to be unique and different from what kinds of music my generation has been expected to listen to. When reading I came across Louis Armstrong. He was a singer, musician, and composer. He is one of the most influential influences in Jazz music still today. What fascinated me about him and his band playing is that they didn’t have arrangements of what they would play. It was “spontaneous improvising. In this way each of the members would have a solo and it would sound incredible. This was a creative art for that was also unique. I also liked to read about the folk music portion of this chapter. What struck me is when it said, “Folk songs are usually remembered by ear and not written down in musical notation, the music and text continually evolve from generation to generation. Folk music is beautiful because it comes from such emotion sometimes such as “Amazing Grace”. Today you do not here much folk music on the radio and it’s a shame because they should being some unique and beautiful culture back on the radios for people to here real genuine
The Human Phenomenon & the language of Art and Architecture When I read this first chapter of my arts and culture book I realized how fascinating and important art is. Art is in everything we do whether we know it or not. It’s in every object we contain and building/structure we have ever seen. It’s also different in every culture and it a good way to communicate feelings, culture, and customs to others. An example of this I found when reading was on page 16. It was Tim Hawkinson’s Bear sculpture before I read the description I had a sense of emotion towards the sculpture right away. The sculpture took me to my childhood and my favorite bear I had. That is what art does for us. It connects to each and every one of us. …show more content…
When creating an art form of the body we need to look at “hints of character or mental state.” We need to take ourselves to the time when the art was created and realize that human are nature.
An example of the mind portion of art is when it talks about Eadweard Muybridge’s Handspring. I found this extremely fascinating because when I first looked at the image I did not realize how the picture was created of that the man was actually only doing a hand stand and not a handspring. Using twelve cameras this artist was able to do a trick of the mind and made it seem that the picture was in motion.
Another thing that stuck out to me when reading this is Hannah Wilke’s Intra-Venus. This had to deal with sickness and death and she decided to document the illness but doing so in a unique way. In the pictures the illness progressed and she posed in a way you would for playboy magazines and such. She was trying to get across that even in her illness she could reclaim her sexuality for herself. I am positive this impacted many other who have and are going through similar …show more content…
It shares many of the same traits of Jazz. Ragtime music was usually written by black pianist who earned their living playing in the houses of the “ill repute”. I found both Jazz and Ragtime to be unique and different from what kinds of music my generation has been expected to listen to. When reading I came across Louis Armstrong. He was a singer, musician, and composer. He is one of the most influential influences in Jazz music still today. What fascinated me about him and his band playing is that they didn’t have arrangements of what they would play. It was “spontaneous improvising. In this way each of the members would have a solo and it would sound incredible. This was a creative art for that was also unique. I also liked to read about the folk music portion of this chapter. What struck me is when it said, “Folk songs are usually remembered by ear and not written down in musical notation, the music and text continually evolve from generation to generation. Folk music is beautiful because it comes from such emotion sometimes such as “Amazing Grace”. Today you do not here much folk music on the radio and it’s a shame because they should being some unique and beautiful culture back on the radios for people to here real genuine