Wysocki
I like this ad because i think that shoe is cute and its bright and makes me want to look at it, but I don't like that it is promoting alcohol.
Summary
In Wysocki's article, she attempts to argue different views on beauty and art. She thinks that social norms can be harmful. She uses many examples of art and advertisement to show how people view images.
Synthesis
I think Wysocki's article is similar to McCloud's in the sense that they are both talking about images and how people view them. This article is also similar to Berger's because of he fact that they both talk about women and how women are looked at in art. This also is similar to King in many ways.
Summary
In Wysocki's article, she attempts to argue different views on beauty and art. She thinks that social norms can be harmful. She uses many examples of art and advertisement to show how people view images.
Synthesis
I think Wysocki's article is similar to McCloud's in the sense that they are both talking about images and how people view them. This article is also similar to Berger's because of he fact that they both talk about women and how women are looked at in art. This also is similar to King in many ways.
Response
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Quotation
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From a picture you can’t determine how the person really
is, only what they are portraying in the picture.
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“This is a body without culture,
race, class, gender, or age.” (85)
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The images we see go together and match up with past
experiences.
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"...the pleasures of
seeing...are the pleasures of seeing one's apparently most essential self and
experiences made visible." (85)
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I like this quote because it explains why we look where we
look when we look at a picture
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"It is because of this
contrast: this is the lightest thing in the design and the only large rounded
shape." (80)
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I agree with Wysocki.
Flat shapes make me think of calm images.
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"Smooth
flat horizontal shapes give us a sense of stability and calm." (84)
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In advertising and pictures of women, we don’t care who
they are, but only what they look like.
This has been going on forever just like Berger explains in his
article.
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“We are not encouraged to ask
about the woman in the ad as a woman, only as a shape” (83).
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AE 1
I definitely think artwork is up for interpretation. Art can be viewed so many different ways it just depends on who is looking at it.
Thoughts
This was a very long, dense, hard to understand article. I don't think I enjoyed it very much while reading it, but after I was done I learned a lot and understand a little bit more about how art is looked at.
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