Blog Post #5

1) I agree that "art can create empathy." People who have the same experiences or memories related to the topic of an artwork may feel more empathy for it. For example,some people who have experienced war probably have bad or sad memories of war. When they look at art works that are related to war, they may develop strong empathy for these artworks because they can connect to them more. On the other hand, people who have no experience of war may relate less to these artworks and their view would be less subject.

2) I also agree with her idea. I believe that the written word doesn't encourage us to develop critical thinking because when we see a written word, it's usually direct to the point and we can usually understand its precise meaning. Hence, we do not need to try to figure out what it means. On the contrary, when we look at a piece of artwork, its meaning is very unclear and we would have to generally assume what the artist is trying to express through his artwork. Thus, each individual who views the same piece of artwork may come up with different meanings and interpretations from it.

practice blog post #5

Statue of a kouros (youth)

I chose this becacuse it was very simple and i felt that it looked basic form of statue of human. The thing one of his leg is forwarded also made me interesting.



According to the website of Metropolitan Museum of Art(http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/32.11.1), " it is one of the earliest marble statues of a human figure carved in attica, the region around Athenes." The Greeks learned their carving skills like this statue from Egyptians and it was used by Greek sculptors for more than a hundred years. A kouros is very similar to Egyptian sculptures but the difference is the Greeks depticted their male figures in the nude, while the Egyptians were normally skirted. Moreover, the Greek sculptors emphasized the act of walking of the figure. On the website, they also says that this sculpture is unrealistic and looks weired to modern people, it shows two important aspects of Archaic Greek art.

Citation "Statue of a kouros (youth) [Greek, Attic] (32.11.1)". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/32.11.1 (October 2006)

Practice Post #4 - Evaluating Art

Artist : Edvard Munch


Formal evaluation : Munch tries not to depict objective reality. He uses many lines to show movement.

contextual evaluation : He painted "The Scream" in the end of the 19th century, and this painting is the first expressionist painting.

expressive evaluation : Most of his family had died and he was often suffered by sickness. He tries to express his anxiety.