POOJA KAGRANA
ILLUSTRATION
REPORT: SEMINAR
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How does our perception affect the way that we understand art?
Where is Art and how do we Understand it?
Art is everywhere. New forms of art are continuously born thus, the meaning of the word “art” changes with time and context.
In 2005 SerraGlia carried out and street art performance, which had a white board saying “Art is Everywhere”. The aim of the project was to create a temporary visual emptiness. A basic experiment for opening people’s eyes so that they could see the interesting layers of cuts, marks, old posters and parts of the city that normally remain unnoticed by everyone usually.
Where he states that: Everything is a sign and everything constitutes a message. Whether we are aware of it or not, whether we do it intentionally or not, we all constantly receive and send messages through Art.
So how do these messages play a role in art and how do we see and understand them?
“Art is often telling us a story.” Art of Personal storytelling is to show impact of positivity on practice, and better outcomes for individuals. Today understanding art is Diverse and has no boundaries, talking about illustration from studio practices it is mostly about communicating a specific contextualized message to an audience. It is rooted in an objective need to fulfil a particular task.
While Art needs no task and is globally influenced, culturally diverse, and can be illustrated easily in this technologically advancing world through a lot of mediums. Art allows us to give voice to the various and changing cultural landscape of identities, values, and beliefs.
Audiences play an active role in the process of constructing meaning about works of art. Some artists say that the viewer contributes and concludes the artwork by proposing his or her personal reflections, experiences and opinions. understanding and reacting to an art work is how we see the message said by the artist. This encourages and allows the artist to present their work in their own words and to inspire viewers to think, react, and respond to each visual art differently.
Hito Steyerl’s In Defense of Poor Image this article is about low quality images, particularly in favor to the reason being multiplication of the original piece resulting in poor image.
The focus is how the poor image is a result of traveling image that is distributed for free, compressed, reproduced, remixed and copied to be pasted into other means. This transforms the quality into a very low standard. She states “The poor image tends towards abstraction: its visual idea in its very becoming.”
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Low resolution – Focus is identified as class position, hierarchy of images depends on sharpness and resolutions
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Invisibility of images more or less was voluntary and is based on aesthetic premises.
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Poor images are poor because they are not assigned any value within the class society of images—their status as illicit or degraded grants them exemption from its criteria. Their lack of resolution attests to their appropriation and displacement.
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The work loses its originality – Privacy factors
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The economy of poor images corresponds to the description of imperfect cinema-Poor images are thus popular image
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With time change, Poor image is about originally original - meaning it about reality
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In Defense Of Poor Image
What do you learn from this Image?
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That’s a photograph of Chris (Subject)
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Near Mischief (Location)
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From last week (Time)
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Its the same photo with a better quality
“Have you ever wondered why our senses become more alert and sensitive and we see things that continually surprise and inspire us when we visit a city for the first time as a tourist? On the other hand, why does it often seem that nothing extraordinary or exceptional ever happens during our everyday routines?”
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Aims to motivate readers to observe the world as they have never seen it before
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How ordinary things can be seen differently and how art, if made more accessible to everyone, can help us see things differently.
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To see the world with fresh eyes and to discover art in everyday things
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To forget the challenge of defining Art but understand it as a start for new and unusual understandings of what already surrounds us.
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Art is strictly related to time. Is it necessary that since Art is everywhere you just have to be at the right place at the right time.
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Where does Art belong? Where does it start and end? How different factors revolve our expectations regarding the experience of art.
It aims to stimulate readers to observe the world as they have never seen it before by suggesting how ordinary things can be seen differently and how art, if made more accessible to everyone, can help us see things differently.
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Art expresses a specific theme, often in a metaphorical way, and the way we interpret that artistic detail, affects the way we interpret the narrative and the story being told. Here art naturally produce narratives, because they exist to tell stories.
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It's human nature to see patterns and sequence, even when they aren't necessarily there. So when the art provides text, it will read different to the one other.
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So the message we receive from the Art is how our brain connects to it.
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Raising the question “why” to the art to achieve the message behind will help us to promote curiosity, encourage dialogue, and initiate debate about the world and the issues that affect our lives in comparison to the art piece.
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Art would act as creative role model, that can inspire people of all ages to consider how ideas are developed, articulated, and realized in the present-day world, Also offering us opportunities to support diverse learning styles from noticing “Art everywhere around us.”
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Artists address all kind of current events and historical ideas, that helps in symbolizing how we relate to a particular art using the knowledge we already have to understand more.
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Learning and focusing on quality of image and the information that we receive from the same.
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Low resolution and poor feature outcomes can also be to show certain time-period or availability of resources.
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Referencing helps to make connections between creativity and support interdisciplinary thinking and reasoning to the digital and raw structure of the art.
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To continue practicing to explore and use technology and media, and the way they work to create outcomes that focuses both on quality and message.
How does our perception affect the way that we understand art in context with the research?
"Beverly Fishman: Color-Coding Big Pharma | Art21 Magazine". Art21 Magazine.
"In Defense Of The Poor Image - Journal #10 November 2009". N.p.
“Art Is Everywhere: How to Really Look At Things”Lorenzo Servi Alias Serraglia.2012
“Art Is Everywhere- Street Performance 2005”
"Art Is Everywhere: How To Really Look At Things, 2016". Vimeo. Web. 24 Apr. 2017.
“Adler JM and McAdams DP” (2007) Time, culture and stories of the self, Psychological Inquiry, 18 (2), 97-128
"Architizer". Architizer255.rssing.com. Web. 14 Apr. 2017.
"Low-Rez / High Pleazh Screen Caps". Pinterest. N.p., 2017. Web. 19 Apr. 2017.
2005, “Art is Everywhere” performance, Florence
Pooja Kagrana
Illustration
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