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| "Cult" Stand, Statue Anthropomorphic, Painted 800 - 600 B.C.E. |
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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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I chose the first painting, The Art Critic by Norman Rockwell. One of the components in this pictures is a man, holding magnifying glass at a picture. He also has color palette, brushes, and painting stand. Other components are two paintings. The first picture, which the man is looking, is portrait of a beautiful woman, staring back at the man. And another one is a picture of 3 upset men.
ReplyDeleteI really love this painting. It's so realistic, and colorful. And, in my perspective, I think this painting has layers of meanings. Since this painting is named The Art Critic, it might mean that the man, even he is only an apprentice, is trying to find errors in this picture without looking for its beauty, that's why people in the pictures look upset.
In fact, I have never seen this painting before, so I only know that this picture is called The Art Critic, drawn by Norman Rockwell in 1955, from the caption under the picture.
i think petch idea is very interesting. accoding to the name of this painting and petch's comment mentioned above, i agree that the painter of this painting want to attack everyone who do not know well about art -- so they do not know how to interprete art's meaning, but want to find some drawbacks of art. perhaps, the painter represent theirselves that they do not like one who blame art without understanding of art, by using characthers in this painting; for example, the woman look funny of the apprentice's manner, and some guys in the painting behind are gossiping of the apprentice.
DeleteI thought that Rockwell's was a fun painting - the colours are cheerful and the actions are humorous, with the subjects of the paintings also criticizing the artist as he turns his critical eye on them.
DeleteI need to think more about the magnifying glass - what might the artist have been saying with that?
But I like one of the other works more. Rather, I think one of the other works is a better piece of art.
My choice is Street Scene by Laetita. The components of this work are building, humans and cars. Buildings are shop houses, some have one floor, some have two.All of Humans, man,woman and children have black skin which implied us their African origin. They are two vintage cars in this picture; show us when that the theme picture is set in.
ReplyDeleteAs I was writing my comment on Petch's and P's discussion above (Parichat PanyawisitkulJune 4, 2014 at 8:20 PM), it occurred to me that Hartmann could have asked two different questions:
ReplyDelete1. Which one do you like the most? (This is her exact question in exercise B. on page 72).
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2. Which one is the best work of art?
I can imagine myself liking Rockwell's painting The Art Critic more than Cartier-Bresson's Aquila degli Abruzi, but I think the photograph is the better work of art.