Blog 3

Walker

In this article I found it interesting how Bartlett turn something ugly into 200 pieces of art. She gave up her apartment in New York City to move to Nice. She ended up being in the wrong part of town and also ended up with an ugly garden to look at. Instead of giving up and moving back to NYC she turned an ugly garden into art and made it beautiful.  This whole article talks about the big idea and in my opinion Bartlett turned something useless into a big idea to use in her artwork. I also found it interesting how one big idea was used for 200 different artworks.

       I didn’t find anything to problematic in this article. If anything you could argue that in the last paragraph or two when it talks about Brice Marden, they quote Marden saying that he could paint one way for the rest of his life but that would be boring. Which is totally opposite of Bartlett. Or you could say they put that in this article to show how hard it was for Bartlett to do over 200 drawings of the same big idea. Just because she has drawn it a 100 times doesn’t mean it gets easier. If anything it gets harder because you want the next drawing to look better and say more than the last.

Barrett

       I this article I liked how they did this interpretation exercise with different age groups. I would it interesting that even child the age of three and four could point out denotation and connotation of their teddy bear. By having these students do this it also teaches them to think deeper into everyday objects. In my opinion it also teaches more of the younger children that we see things the way say maybe a company wants us to see them.

       What I found problematic in this article is that the magazine cover was being over analyzed. When discussing there outfits and ultimately deciding that they are masters of sex and that if they want sex they will be in charge was over doing it.  They were appealing at a sexual angle but I would go as far as saying they are preparing for sex.