Western History
Learning journal #1 Chapters 1-5
As I was introduced to the history of art, I soon learned that there are three main ways in which art in the west was visible. Pictures are one of the three ways in which art was made back in the day. Personally I found very interesting the self-portraits that artists made. For instance, I was amazed by the creation of Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, the art work that has a high intrinsic value. This picture created by the Italian artist gives me an impression of smartness by da Vinci’s side. The detail he put in the picture is very thoughtful as many of us are unable to say if the woman in the picture is smiling or not. Also another thing that caught my attention was if the woman in the picture is really a woman or if the person is really a man. Regardless of what the answer maybe for these questions I strongly believe that da Vinci’s work had a message that he was trying to communicate, yet it is impossible to find that out by fact.
Going into depth on the history of art I was also impressed how art work can have different types of value. At first I had the idea that art work value mater only if the piece of art was made out of expensive material, but studying the history of art I had learned that art is not only evaluated by its material value, but also by intrinsic, religious, nationalistic, and psychological value. To me it is just something unreal to imagine that something that was worth hundred dollars to be made can be worth now thousands of dollars because of its religious value or even intrinsic value. It can really be a billionaire business. Even though it might be reckless from my side, I would rather have calculated a piece of art price by interpretative approaches such as formalism, iconography, Marxism, feminism, semiology biographical, deconstruction, and psychoanalysis.
Moving on to the language of art, it makes more sense to me how the formal elements when an artist combines them they can be arranged into a
As I was introduced to the history of art, I soon learned that there are three main ways in which art in the west was visible. Pictures are one of the three ways in which art was made back in the day. Personally I found very interesting the self-portraits that artists made. For instance, I was amazed by the creation of Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, the art work that has a high intrinsic value. This picture created by the Italian artist gives me an impression of smartness by da Vinci’s side. The detail he put in the picture is very thoughtful as many of us are unable to say if the woman in the picture is smiling or not. Also another thing that caught my attention was if the woman in the picture is really a woman or if the person is really a man. Regardless of what the answer maybe for these questions I strongly believe that da Vinci’s work had a message that he was trying to communicate, yet it is impossible to find that out by fact.
Going into depth on the history of art I was also impressed how art work can have different types of value. At first I had the idea that art work value mater only if the piece of art was made out of expensive material, but studying the history of art I had learned that art is not only evaluated by its material value, but also by intrinsic, religious, nationalistic, and psychological value. To me it is just something unreal to imagine that something that was worth hundred dollars to be made can be worth now thousands of dollars because of its religious value or even intrinsic value. It can really be a billionaire business. Even though it might be reckless from my side, I would rather have calculated a piece of art price by interpretative approaches such as formalism, iconography, Marxism, feminism, semiology biographical, deconstruction, and psychoanalysis.
Moving on to the language of art, it makes more sense to me how the formal elements when an artist combines them they can be arranged into a