Blog 3

The article “Big Ideas and Artmaking” was written by Walker. The article is about how ideas affect the creation of arts. Sometimes we might get big ideas, and we could develop them and made those ideas into arts. The writer even claims that the idea is more important than the subject. Because subject matters the topic of the art while idea matters the concept. So a good idea really changes the quality of an art.

But if we concern too much on idea and ignore subject, we cannot create good art either. It is because we cannot make an art without subject. No matter how brilliant your idea is, it cannot transform to an art. So I think artist should first according to their ideas in their mind to set up the subject and title. Then expend their mind base on that subject and title they had set up.

The article “Interpreting Connotations in Visual Culture” written by Barrett is about the connotations in vision arts. The article states that arts always trying to show us something or want to express something. So it is very important for use to understand what the artist is trying to express and which is hidden behind their art. Sometimes those clues were very difficult to find and we have to look at the art really carefully to find those clues.

In my opinion, expressing emotion with hidden clues sometimes might change the whole feeling of the art we are trying to create. But if the clue is not easy to find, people may just ignore them. So it is really hard to decide how we should set up those clues. I think this is very import for an artist to think about before they are trying to add those things to their arts.