Questions
1. 1. Looking back on all of the artists we have looked at and discussed throughout the course of this class do you think that art does have an impact on the world? One of the first discussions we had was regarding The Shock of the New video and how the art created during the war had an impact on the society and how people may have viewed the war. After looking at all of the other artists and their many different pieces created it makes me think that maybe art does have an impact on the world because art does in fact have an impact on other artists ideas, and movements of art though different generations. The way we look at art may have an impact on how we view the world in different ways.
2. 2. A big part of this class was a project we did which took a text and translated, flipped it around, twisted the words up and maybe even used the N+7 method to create an entirely new text to read. Another project we did related a little bit to this method in that we had to use one simple text and create new stories from it based on different interpretations, perspectives, and languages. In what ways do these projects relate to one another? How does the ability to interpret these simple texts in multiple different ways help us to analyze it better? Doing these projects really opened my eyes to think about all the different styles of writing, and the different ways to create and read a simple poem or story. We may read a poem one way and it may mean something, but then once its changed and things are added or taken out, it could mean a whole different idea.
3. 3. Compare some aspects from the story The Hearing Trumpet to some aspects of The Story of Morel. What similarities and differences do you see between how the stories are written, the language used, the descriptions of setting, and events etc? In The Hearing Trumpet the book was much of a dream like state and things seemed very magical and surreal. I also got this feeling a little bit when reading the Morel book because of the way the main character describes things, but most importantly because of the state of mind he was in. Another similarity I can make is the description on the bungalows that Marion lived in at the nursing home, and the descriptions of the museum in Morel. The museum and nursing home can also be compared.
