Finding the Meaning of an Artwork According to John Berger in his essay “Ways of Seeing” the way that a painting is viewed by some may already be distorted prior to analyzing it because we are not viewing the original piece. The information that comes from the silence of a painting is only truly experienced when looking at the original work rather than a reproduction of it. The original work speaks to you in a way that a reproduction is not able to. Berger says this clearly when he states:
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Ways of Seeing is a very thin book‚ with few words‚ yet it is an extremely influential book‚ and confronts several important aspects of art‚ unlike any other author. John Berger takes a general approach of Marxism and New Art History relating to social history in Ways of Seeing. He focuses less on the aesthetic properties of art‚ and more on the New Art History approach; on the social and political construction of artworks‚ mainly oil paintings concerning class‚ race‚ gender‚ and ethnicity. Berger
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Blake Taylor P100207428 Seeing & Knowing the Visual Arts I chose to use a piece of art named “New Tricks”‚ done by Angela Starosta. It is an architectural art that she uses to make a space for animal rescue‚ rehabilitation‚ and adopting animals. I chose to use this one in particular because I liked her architect and her thoughts on how she wants the building to work with humans and animals with rehabilitation‚ animal rescue‚ and an adoption center. She used three dimensional pictures‚ animated video
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M A R K T WA I N Two Ways of Seeing a River (1883) This passage is excerpted from Mark Twain’s 1883 book Life on the Mississippi‚ in which he shares his experiences as a river steamboat pilot and explores the many facets of the great river. As you read‚ consider his masterful use of language as he reflects on his changing relationship with the river. Now when I had mastered the language of this water and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I
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Analysis on Two ways of seeing a river by Mark twain Now when I had mastered the language of this water and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet‚ I had made a valuable acquisition. But I had lost something‚ too. I had lost something which could never be restored to me while I lived. All the grace‚ the beauty‚ the poetry had gone out of the majestic river! I still keep in mind a certain wonderful sunset which
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Berger’s "Ways of Seeing" VS. My Own There are numerous ways to "see" a picture. One person’s life can‚ and will affect the way in which they view the painting. I do not agree with Berger’s way of thinking throughout "Ways of Seeing". I feel that his opinions are contradictory‚ and opposite of mine. One reason I don’t like this reading is because he notes‚ "The way we see things is affected by what we know or what we believe. In the middle Ages when men believed in a physical existence in Hell‚ the
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In Chapter 3 of his book‚ “Ways of Seeing”‚ John Berger argues that in western nude art and present day media‚ that women are largely shown and treated as objects upon whom power is asserted by men either as figures in the canvas or as spectators. Berger’s purpose is to make readers aware of how the perception of women in the art so that they will recognize the evolution of western cultured art. Berger begins by claiming that in nude art the “presence” of a man is that of an actor who asserts
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In this essay‚ I will discuss chapter’s five and seven of John Berger’s book “Ways Of Seeing”. Section one will look at what Berger means when he talks about power in chapter five of the book. In section two‚ we will discuss his ideas on imagination and envy‚ as outlined in chapter seven. In chapter five‚ Berger talks about oil painting being more of an art form than a technique. While he concedes that the technique has been with us for centuries‚ his argument is that it came into prominence when
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Museum of Fine Arts in Boston‚ I traveled through the different galleries and their various cultures; discovering all sorts of arts from Contemporary art‚ to American art‚ Japanese art‚ and even the Egyptian art where I could appreciate the complexity of mummies. Throughout all these diverse cultures of art‚ I was questioning myself and started to wonder how I could understand art beyond others’ opinion about them. Moreover‚ I realized that it was a question John Berger‚ critic of art and author of
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Berger’s “Ways of Seeing‚” his use of artist jargon makes it difficult for the casual reader to comprehend a lot of the points he makes. A section that demonstrates this can be found in the first full paragraph on page 145. Berger uses phrases such as “compositional unity” and “harmonious fusion” when analyzing the paintings Regents of the Old Men’s Alms House and Regentesses of the Old Men’s Alms House. His language can be understood by different readers in drastically different ways‚ which makes
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