Blog 3: Response to the Walker and Barrett articles

1: Article Walker Big Idea:

  This article introduces to us one series of artworks named In the Garden designed by Bartlett. From these artworks, we can learn the concept of rules and systems. In Bartlett’s artworks, we can found there are several rules. These sculptures are used easy-found materials and all of them have life-size scale and the same subject matter. In my opinion, use some same rules could really make the series artworks seems better, because same rules could make people feel harmonious among these artworks. I agree the author’s point that people usually created the great artworks when the artworks match their emotion.

Use the same rules in the series of artwork does make the artworks look more harmonious. However, sometimes could also make the audience feel tired, because the audience might think these artworks has no “bright point”. In my opinion, in a series of artworks, maybe use the different rules not a bad idea. The audience may always find surprises when appreciating the next artwork.

2: Article Barrett Visual Culture 

  Just from the tittle of the article, we can see this article talks about how to read and what can we know from a picture. The article mainly discusses the denotations and connotations about the pictures. I can use an easy example to explain the difference between denotations and connotations. A girl sends you a box of chocolate, there is a label on the box---“chocolate”, and you will know inside the box is chocolate. This is the denotation. If the box is heart-shaped, you may think the girl loves you, and this is the connotations.

  I think denotations and connotations may not always be true in our life. In contrast, they may cause misunderstanding often. Even a cement mark may change a sentence totally different meaning. Sometimes things are not the same as what we see or what we think.