domingo, 24 de agosto de 2008

Ways of seeing the past and the future.

The way people see the world it is always diferent, we are unique and so it is every opinion and understanding of the world. It is like the appreciations of a master piece like “The Monalisa” many people will see a woman standing to be paint, but some other will see a sad person or a person without any expression; the way we look art it is an example of how big is the difference between the views of humanity.
When we refer to art it is because it is the best example when we try to explain why we all see the world with different eyes. Moreover paints or sculptures are already a person’s view of something, a great emperor like Napoleon, or a great master piece like “The last dinner” of Davincci. When we look to these paints we are creating an opinion about them, but also we are seeing these moments just like the artist saw them, and over everything we are wondering how was the artist able to paint it if he just saw it for a short period of time.
The ability to catch a single moment in old times was unique and of course really appreciate, but if we want to do it we just use a camera, a really great device that allow us to be artists all the time. But do we really wonder ourselves how was for the artists to realized that may loose their work, that nobody else will call them to do a portrait or more important to know that the paints that they did before may not be that important because now people would just take a picture of them with a camera.
But instead of that the appreciation turns completely different, people star thinking that they may have a copy but it is not the same that have the original, why happened that? Was the original painting able to express something that the picture couldn’t? Maybe the picture that we take of a master piece does not express what the artist wanted to say, because we took the picture we made the copy, it is our way to see the world what changed the original master piece.
As we can realized many of these paintings may be old but showed us how the world was seeing in other days in others times, when there was no camera, where we could see different realities thanks to a person who paint the rich the poor, they paint the world as we knew it.
Nowadays it is important for to think as this past, ponder if we have done well in old times, we have to remember that in old times artists couldn’t paint what society didn’t want them to paint. The world had to be paint just like God did it. Like an example Vincent Van Gogh who sow the world with really special eyes, and as consequence his paintings where never sell until many years before his death.
We can’t commit the same mistakes like we did in the past, we need to be aware of the past, it is ok to see the world differently, we all are different and we are also able to understand and accept others opinion and mistakes, that’s how we can build a new future for everyone.

4 comentarios:

Ángel dijo...

Nice reflexion mike, I would say you really enjoyed the text. You could appreciate how people perceive images and how different we are in terms of appreciation.
You just need to check some spelling mistakes and punctuation, but nothing serious.

bye!

Claudia Trajtemberg dijo...

Hi Miguel,
I think you are very right in that art allows us to clearly exemplify the fact that even the same picture, artifact, novel, etc, would trigger different interpretations and viewpoints at different levels (the author/the reader or observer, etc).

Also, you´ve mentioned the fact that many times in history artists were "forced" to show what was accepted or expected from them. Therefore, many were misunderstood or rejected. Isn´t it the same today with some ideas, viewpoints, etc.? ´

Your final remarks are very true I think. We need to be aware of the past to build a better future. As a future English teacher, how do you think this "awareness" will impact your teaching?
Well done!
Claudia

Yori dijo...

Hi Miguel
I liked your presentation
I really enjoyed to see a different point of view based in the same text that I read but at the same time, I understand that this was the main point of doing this presentations.
Great analysis and good management. also, it was great the comparison that you did between the painting and the picture you showed.
Good work!!

Nataly Del Sol Moyano Rojas dijo...

Hello Mike,
I really like your presentation. It´s true that everyone has a different perspective of a same thing.
I enjoyed the fact that you made a comparison between what we see in a real situation and what we virtually see. All this, by showing a picture in the computer and then the real one. Excellent.
Nice job.
See you around.