Sunday, April 5, 2015
The web resource that I found most interesting was the link to the Native American Images (http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/nativeamericans/index2.html). I found these to be really thought provoking, but more so I really just simply enjoyed the imagery. Taking the "controversy" out of the equation (or potential controversy of some of the images), it was fascinating to just enjoy these visually stimulating works. I found that I learned to ask more questions. This is important because if you don't know enough about a topic to even be able to ask questions about it then you have less of a chance to understand it. One question that I found myself asking was why did the artists chose to use paint as a media when photography was available (obviously for the painters who did their work when cameras were invented). Was it because it allowed less "artistic license" for those looking to perpetuate a specific narrative? Was it because cameras seemed too "technologically advanced"? Was it because photography was possibly considered a novelty and to be taken seriously you couldn't exhibit photographs? Were photographs not given the nod of approval by academia at the time? To me, looking at if from a viewpoint of someone who grew up with photographs being the norm in society, I wonder if even more could have been learned from these images if they were taken with camera as opposed to paint and canvas? Then again, would they still inspire the "awe" that they do if they were just old photos? Definitely, and interesting link, that really gave me the urge to visit an art museum!
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