Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Monday Lecture 5

On the 25th of April, within a lecture that began around 3:30 p.m. I learned a rectifying lesson that will last with me through out my trials as an art student. Professor Kip gave his students a metaphor which he also depicted through a picture. He began with the simple image of a rectangular wagon with two circular wheals. After words a donkey was drawn in front of the wagon which was followed by a man sitting on the wagon holding a long stick above the animal. Dangling from the end of the stick was a carrot on what I presume was a string. The carrot sat suspended a few feet in front of the view of the donkey.

The most important part of the image and or metaphor was the distance between the donkey and the carrot. Art work is much like the carrot and the space. the tangle performance or piece is the carrot itself but the deliverance is the spacing between it and the audience. If you haven;t realized it yet, we as the spectators are the donkey. The spacing between the art and audience is what determines whether an art piece will be good, great or forever remembered. Overall the metaphor and image was very simple but at the same time it has an old school fill of a character or icon tricking a less intelligent character within a story into doing their bidding. Perhaps, this aspect is on purpose; perhaps it's saying that we may in fact be using this technique as a form of tricking our audience into appreciating the message found within the art even if the message is no more special than anyone else.

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