Ways Of Seeing Analysis

For centuries art is what brought the eye closer to reality. Art and freedom of expression extremely complement each other. The freedom to express anything through art has been around longer than the freedom to express through writing. New ways of making art are being created all the time for instance around the early 1900 's when printmaking first started; one of its many uses was to be used as political awareness. For example, many people in the towns of Mexico were illiterate, so these satirical illustrations socially engaged the viewer by using skulls to represent the oppressing government at the time and helped them make up what was going on around them politically. Artists all over the world whether it being a discrete underground street …show more content…
Interpretation is everything; In the reading Ways of Seeing by John Berger, he believes that ,"the way we see things is affected by what we know or what we believe" (690). He also stateing that when we see something it comes to the mind before words. Almost as if it is developing in the minds and each individual can detail something different than the other. Maybe that can explain why there are different reactions to one thing. If an image or artwork is so offensive why not just look the other way? Sometimes words are just not enough to present an ongoing theme. An image is there and can be seen over and over without much hesitation. Everyone has an image in their heads when they listen to someone and that portrayal Is different in everyone 's minds.When something is portrayed for one person another will pick it up in a different meaning. In the story about the photograph of Omayra Sanchez by Isabel Allende, she writes "The wonder of photography is that it dies what no words can." Maybe it is true what they say, a picture speaks more than a thousand words. For a long time that is what satirical cartoons have been doing. Putting up comical relief on a situation that was a bit grave; today many satirical magazines stand behind Charlie Hebedo, the French magazine that got attacked early January by three radical Islamic over an image depicting the prophet Mohamed. People should not be oppressed by fear. Cartoonist around the world had reactions to this tragedy now more people will parody the first subject and population wins. The tragedy that happened in Paris, is a huge example of freedom of speech taken down by people not following their beliefs as they truly should. Controversial images are everywhere and it is expected a reaction. Weather it is offensive or not it is cause to bring some sort of uproar. It is a real shame that there are people out in the world willing to