Analyze This!

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Watch the Magic

I took the first photo in mid-afternoon and took the second photo right when the sun was almost down. These photos were taken in front of the community center, right next to the playground. Although these two images consists of many colors that can be taken from the color wheel, colors such as blue, from the playground poles, yellow-green from the bark, and so on, these two photos also differ in many ways. As one can tell, the first photo is a lot lighter in value than the second photo, which is very dark in value. Also, in both pictures one can see many tints and shades. In the first photo, the hue in the blue poles appear to be lighter than the second photo due to the sunlight, which gave it a tint, but in the second photo, the poles appear to be darker because of the darkness, which give it its shade. Both photos have primary colors, which is the color blue, but only one of the photos have secondary colors, which is the second photo. The community center has the orange lights illuminating in the background. There are no uses of arbitrary colors in used in these photos because all of the colors are its true colors and were not modified by me. In the first photo, there is a single light in the background right next to the playground, which the intensity of that light is very dull, but in the second photo, the intensity of that light is very bright due to the time the photo was taken. Both photos have different analogous color schemes. The first photo is more of a warm scheme due to the brightness, and the second photo is more of a cool analogous color scheme due to the somewhat dark violet in the photo.

Line and Space

Ever since week 5 assignment was assigned, I began to observe my surroundings more and more. I realized that we are surrounded by lines and space everywhere. From our homes bathrooms, rooms, living rooms, to the forests trees, bushes, and bark on the trees, it is everywhere. We see analytic lines all the time. An example would be a building in down town. The line is precise, controlled, mathematically rigorous, and rationally organized. The contractors have to make precise measurements in order to build the buildings. I also realized as I was playing football that there is an implied lines everywhere. In order to run a route in football, one has to know where he running to. So a route that I ran is I had to run a straight line, then run out at a 90 degree angle, which I had to follow. Then as I turned around to catch the football, the quarterback looked right at me to show that the ball was going to go straight towards me, which also implied a straight line.

We can see linear perspective at work everywhere we go. We see two-point linear perspective, which has more than one vanishing point in when we are walking down the street. If you are walking in the middle of the street and there is a row of houses on each side of you and cannot see where the homes stop, then that’s the linear perspective at work. We can see atmospheric lines when we are on the beech and the sun is setting or when we are snowboarding in the mountains. The haze from the water blurs the sunset a little bit, and the snow drizzle makes a blur on the mountains when you are riding down the slopes. I have seen many contour lines lately, many in peoples clothing in the gym. Some people who work out at the gym sometimes where tight or loose shirts. One can see if someone is fit or unfit if wearing a loose shirt because of the contour lines. If one is bigger, obviously the shirts contour lines will show the round curves, but if one is not, then it would be a different curve.

Controversial Art

There are many social benefits that come from controversial art. One of the main benefits is just simply being different. If there was not any controversial art, then everyone would think one minded and everything would be the same. Once that happens, then it would be very easy for people to become brainwashed with an artists work. Say mayor Rudi Giuliani and the Government banned all of the controversial art in America and the government only put out pieces of what they believed art should be. Since the government thought that the picture of Mary was controversial and not art, imagine what the government would consider art. I believe it would be really scary. They would probably put pictures of only supermodels, actresses, actors, body builders, cars, big homes, etc. The government would put pictures up of fake images of what one should look like or what one should posses and make everyone in America hate themselves even more and make one even more self conscious about their appearance or social status. Since there is controversial art, people have the right to choose on what they believe is art to them so people can be different and think and express themselves.

The world would not be a better place if there were specific standards about what art should be. If that was the case then that would not be considered art. Art is a way to express the way one feels and the experiences that one has been through. Everyone grows up different and has different perspectives on reality so a person that is wealthy that grew up in a mansion opposed to a person that grew up in the projects and lived on the street, their going to have different perspective on what art would be. It would not be possible to be able to only have predetermined standards because there is always going to be people rebelling an opposing side. So the government could probably take away controversial art in museums, but you cannot take it from the people. They are always going to make art the way they see it and the way they express it, but now they would have underground functions, meaning it won’t be pubic and the government cannot know anything about it.

If there was no controversial art then this world would definitely would not be a world of art. Art is a way one express him or herself and if you put limitations on an artist, then that is not how they truly feel, and that is just not art.

I learned a couple important things in this week’s content. I learned although there might be some art that I cannot interpret and might seem obscene to people, the artist always has his meanings and interpretation to that art piece, no matter what. Every little detail has an important story on how that minor detail was able to make it in the picture. I am also starting to learn that the government somehow wants to limit our freedom as much as possible. Suddenly I am starting to learn that our country is not as free as I thought it was. Art is a form of freedom of speech, which is in our first amendment and if we cannot put out the art we want, then what else wont they let us do.