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| Painting Van Gogh by T. F. Chen, 1991 |
However, Hartmann limits her discussion to a much narrower set of art: the visual arts, starting with the image above on the opening page of chapter 3, and we too can probably ignore the difficult question of what art is, even if we do not limit ourselves here to the traditional visual forms of art that are the subject of chapter 3 of Quest (2007, p. 71 - 104).
The questions to respond to in your initial comments are:
- What is your favourite work of art? Why do you like it? (p. 71) You need not limit yourself to visual art in responding to this question.
- Look over the pictures on pages 74 - 75. Which one do you like the most? Why? Do you know something about any of these pieces of art? (p. 72)
I've been able to find better copies online, as below. Click on the picture to open a larger version of the image.
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| The Art Critic by Norman Rockwell, 1955 |
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| Aquila degli Abruzi by Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1952. |
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| Street Scene, Haiti, by Laetitia. 20th C. |
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What is my favourite work of art? My favourite! How can I pick just one piece of art out of many that I think are great?
ReplyDeleteIf I have to choose only one, it won't be a work of visual art - a painting, photograph, or sculpture. I do like many examples of visual art very much, but my favourite works of art are literature, not visual arts.
My favourite novel is Pride and Prejudice, the brilliant novel written by Jane Austen at the start of the 19th century. I have read this novel more than ten times, and it never bores me. I like it more every time I read it. The story of a country family desperate to marry out of threatening poverty sounds boring, but it isn't. Austen holds our interest on every page as we wait to see what will happen next. The language is fun and perfectly captures the different characters of the Bennet family, their relatives, and their acquaintances in small-town England at that time. I especially like the way everything is connected. All of Austen's sentences do at least two things: perhaps moving the story forward and describing a character, or maybe creating suspense and giving background that will be used later in the story, and so on. It is all done naturally and smoothly so that it seems easy and simple, but it isn't.
I love this novel, and recommend Pride and Prejudice as one of the truly great works of literary art in English.
And you? What sorts of art do you like? What is your favourite (one only!) work of art? Why is it your favourite?
I might write another comment later about my favourite works of visual art, since that is what I think Hartmann really does want us to discuss.
Although I like them all, it was much easier for me to decide which one of Hartmann's selected works of art I like the best, but I don't want to give my answer just yet.
ReplyDeleteI like all of pictures because when I look at them I think these pictures are easy to understand and not abstract pictures. I like the first picture a lot because the color is beautiful and look like a realistic picture.
ReplyDeleteI used to go to art museum that locate is on the opposite of MBK Building. Next, I got an opportunity to watch many pieces of art and some pictures when I watched I could not understand the meaning of picture. It might be I didn't have the knowledge of art. However, I think that art work can make a lot of people get happiness and feel relax when they watch it.
ReplyDeleteI like some painting of various artists. One of them is the Kiss of Gustav Klimt, a famous one (http://ww1.prweb.com/prfiles/2010/01/11/134434/KL1240.jpg) I don't know what is a reason why I like this. I just he use colors and art composition very well.
I like Klimt too.He is an Austrian artist. "The Kiss" is really famous.I fell in love with his paintings when I saw the original one in Vienna.They are very classic and luxurious.
DeleteSo jealous. I haven't seen the authentic one before. You are very lucky! Is it very beatiful? If I could have a chance, I would go to Florence, Italy because there are plenty of classic and famous painting.
DeleteFor the pictures above, I like the first one the most, the Art Critic by Norman Rockwell, 1955 because it looks realistic, but very funny if you see the woman smiling in the frame on the wall. The second has a good perspective view but it seems gloomy becasue of black and white colors, while the last one is ok but I prefer the realistic of the first painting.
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DeleteI'm sort of scientist; moreover, I have a bad skill in art. My favorite work of art surely aren't painting and sculpture, but they are films and literature. For me,both of them have mostly show the purpose of producers and writers which is more easily to understand and very attractive for me to addict them. I can spend all day and night for reading a novel and watching movies that is my hobby.
ReplyDeleteFrom three picture, I prefer "The Art Critic by Norman Rockwell, 1955". Because it look fresh and fun from her face in painting. And I never see the paintings before, so I have no detail about them.
My favorite kind of art is not a painting but a music, because a music can bring me to another world through the sound. It is very fantastic that when I listen to music, I can imagine the story. I can feel the emotion which are happiness, sadness, lonely, anguish, envy, suffering and so on. The music that I love is the songs from les miserable which is a musical performance.
ReplyDeleteActually I do like painting also but not a lot. I like surrealism style which is similar to my dream some night especially a nightmare. The dream that distorted, unlike the real world, frightening and dark. I can't say that I like nightmare but I am interested by it. It Ike something that hide under my subconscious. The thing that can scare me even if it not a ghost. Very interesting right?
According to the pictures above. They have good techniques. The first picture which name the art critic show the humor of the artist. I think this painting is very funny. When I look at it, I feel relax. The second one a little bit dark. When I look at it, it remind me the past, the old time. I feel a little bit lonely because for me the past has always gone. The last one is like in the kids book. It like cartoon. The color is bright except for the skin tone of people there. I think it show us the lives of people somewhere which are simply lives. The people look happy. Yes, I like these pictures.
I like many sorts of art,however, I don't have much knowledge about them. When I like something,it is only about emotion and feeling.
ReplyDeleteI had opportunities to see many paintings from famouse artists. They were so attractive and interesting even I had no information about them before.I like impressionism style the most as they use vivid colors.
To pick one of the paintings above,I would choose "The Art Critic by Norman Rockwell" because it seems so lively when I look at the woman in the painting smiling to the man.I think the painter must want to express his sense of humour to us.
The second painting is quit boring for me because I prefer the paintings with the colors,however,if I understand the meaning of it,I might change my mind.
The last one is also interesting. I focused on the face of people the first.Why the painter didn't paint them? I guess he would like to let us imagine by ourselves so our imaginary will be part of te painting(I only guess from what I see, no theory at all)
Ps. By the way, The second one seems like a photo, not a painting.
DeleteAs a result of studying Ballet at Faculty of Fone and Apply Art, surely that my favorite art is Dancing. My favorite is modern ballet in music vedio of Polina Semiova, she is also my favorite dancer. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaO7bS5Ky6M) She is strong and skillful so i fall in love with her dance at first sight. Most of people who are not interested in art think that ballet is boring and it is too complicated too understand, but modern ballet is different, it is quicker in moverment and music. Her dance in this music video is make me more powerful and want to dance this too :)
ReplyDeleteThe "Aquila degli Abruzi", by Henri Cartier-Bresson is the most i like. in fact, I like any pictures that have perspective so i chose this one; nonetheless, i think it is photography. Actually, any picture, music, dance and photo i like are depend on my emotion in that moment.
Som, I am glad that someone else has finally chosen Cartier-Bresson's photograph over the Norman Rockwell painting. Like many, I like both, but whilst agreeing that The Art Critic is fun and colourful, I don't think it has a lot more depth than what is fairly obvious.
DeleteIt isn't just Cartier-Bresson's use of perspective that works well in his photograph of daily life in an Italian village, but the way he has gotten all of the lines to work together impresses me. From the heavy, strong line made by the stair rail that starts at the middle of the left-hand side in the foreground, the lines lead the eye into and through the whole picture in a zig-zag, intersecting the lines that unify the people going about their daily life: the chicken in the bottom left-hand corner scratching for a worm or grain, the woman carrying buns for sale, the girls playing in front of the church, even the classic lines of the Roman script at the top left both contribute to the lines and add their touch of ordinary, daily life, pro nobis, captured as a perfectly composed moment.