People go to see arts in many purposes. I like
going to see many kinds of arts. However, I have never thought about how to
look arts deeply before learning the ways of looking art in the Wednesday
class. I learned about analyzing art by using eyes and brain from the
experience of looking art in a hallway.
The
painting I saw is a collage at the right next to the door of the entrance of the
hallway. The collage is combined some materials such as paintings, paper form
comics of Captain America and blocks from kid’s toy below the collage. First, I
saw the collage by standing from a distance away to see overall image and
balance. I like the composition of the tree and colors. Also, I found the
feeling of sadness from the collage. Then, I saw the collage closely so that I
could see the dynamic brush strokes and the each material. Furthermore, I found that the
word “911” was made in the blocks deliberately. Since it is collage, a distance is important to see the image. I
thought the lighting of the place is a little dim and it is not perfect for the
collage. On the other hand, it could help for conveying the feeling from the
collage.
I
think that the way I looked at my art was a formal and stylistic analysis. I saw the details that the artist may have
used oil painting, color choosing and how did the artist include other
materials. And also what made the work of art distinctive and what is the
conveying emotion the collage might have. Because there is the words “Tree of
Blood” and “911”, I could guess that it expresses the sadness from 911. Since
there is not any name of the artist or description, I didn’t use contextual
analysis and biographical analysis.
As I
have seen, I learned different kinds of analyzing from the class. Arts show the
artist‘s works in their ways. Then, people see the art in various ways like the analyzing technics.
Learning ways of looking made me more interested in seeing arts. It also could
help me for criticizing art in my future.
Good work here Kanae, and this artwork really does require up close and distant looking, so I am happy to see you were able to make observations and get more meaning from moving your body closer to the work. Also, I think you DID use contextual analysis- because you know what 9/11 is an interpreted meaning from that!
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