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  Claude Monet Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect with Smoke Composition: ·       Leading lines ·       Radiating lines ·       L lines ·       Rule of Thirds I like this piece because it reminds me of home. I can relate to it because I’ve been to New York City multiple times and have seen some of these structures, such as the Empire State building. I enjoy visuals of buildings and architecture as well. I think the meaning of this piece is to show a simple and calmer side of NCY instead of capturing the cars and people that makes NYC. There are also many lines in this piece, which represent one-dimensional properties.     Alfred Sisley Populars on a River Bank” Composition ·       L shape ·       Leading lines ·       Radiating lines I liked this wor...

I thought it was interesting how John Berger pointed out that before the camera was invented, you could only see pieces of art in one place and one time. People travelled all over the world to see famous art works, such as the Mona Lisa. Now with the invention of the camera, anyone could look up the image and see it in seconds. They can see it on their phone, iPad, and laptop while being in their home environment. They don’t have to travel to the place where the actual artwork is currently displayed. It makes me think of how we take for granted this opportunity to see any piece of artwork within seconds, where as in later times people travelled to the photo. Berger also stated that everything in the environment around the image plays a huge role in its meaning. He used the example of the icon to describe this. Before cameras, the icon was only located in a church. Behind its image is God and people didn’t need to look at it to understand its meaning. Now, the icon image travels to...

I believe that this article shows how the imagination and how we visualize things is a way of art. The author describes two different types of imaginative processes. The first one, the one that starts with the word and arrives at the visual image, I believe is the most common type. I use this process when reading articles for school or just reading in general. It helps me get a better understanding of what is going on and allows me to be creative and imagine the scene happening in real life. Knowing how I use this process, I do believe it can be considered a form of art. This process represents a way for writers to communicate their ideas into a picture or theme. Readers process the words and use them to create a picture in their minds that represent those words. At the end of the article, the author describes the problem of the priority of the visual image or verbal expression to be like the chicken and the egg problem. This comparison helped me understand this situation in that ...

In my opinion, I believe that art can change some factors that ultimately end up changing the world. For example, art can inspire people to be a better person or change their attitude about something, which in the long term changes the world for the better. However, I don’t believe that art has the power to directly change the world, like changing global warming or halting the spread of AIDS like the article said. Despite this point of view, I do believe that art is like an experience in which helps us understand its meaning. When artist create a piece of work, there is some type of purpose behind it and it is up to the viewers of art to look deeply into the work and figure out what it is. As we look deeply into the work and recognize the color, pigment, canvas and other aspects related to art, we are then able to really experience it through our minds and come to a conclusion on its meaning. Additionally, I do believe that art can create new thought struc...