Blog #2 Theme Questions

QUESTIONS:

What questions can you formulate about your theme (at least 4)?

How does your theme connect to your life?

How does your theme connect to the world around you?

What kinds of images come to mind when you think about your theme?

What kinds of art or visual information (advertising, tv, film) have you seen that relates to your theme?

Why did you choose this theme and how can you envision exploring it through works of art over the course of the term?

ANSWERS:

How does beauty affect the world? How will the theme of beauty evolve in my mind throughout this class? How "ugly" can art be while still conveying a sense of beauty? How do individuals ideas of what beauty is vary?

Beauty connects to my life simply because I am surrounded by it. A sunset or a person laughing, even learning is all beauty. It may not be in a physical sense, and of course we are surrounded by beautiful people as well, but beauty is life in my eyes. It is the act of people living and being joyous.

I guess beauty connects to the world in similar ways as it does to me. Beauty is individual to each person, so where I may think it is a sunset, others see beauty in a birthday cake or the birth of a child.

Hollywood is essentially a magnet for beautiful people. All of our favorite TV shows are chock-a-block full of pretty girls and ridiculously good looking guys. And the commercials are not a break from the beautifulness. Any and all beer commercials consist of a party with a guy to beautiful girl ratio of about 2:20.

Before mixed media I always believed that art had to be beautiful, truly aesthetically pleasing. I thought that by choosing beauty as my theme I could explore the more inventive or as I said "ugly" ways of creating art. I am excited to see all the different ways to create beauty and to capture beauty even if the final result isn't the fully beautiful.