A picture says 1000 words?

So, “physiognomy,” was a term that i breifly pointed out in one of my last blogs, but it was brought up frequently in class this week. We were shown many pictures that were taken by early photographers such as E. Thiesson, J.T. Zealy,  and Carl Durheim. Some elements of their photography included taking pictures of people [...]

Art that makes you think….

There werent any classes this week  but I would like to share some of the thoughts I have from using ARTstor.
I really liked using the database to find images and explore them. When i was using it, i found an artist, whom I have not heard of before. (I havent heard of too many artists, [...]

Art vs. Ads, and the camera scam

In seminar, we discussed the signifier, the signified, and the signs of different pieces of art and advertisments. In the discussion, many things were brought up such as the difference between art and advertisements. Everyone seemed to agree that ads were more blunt when it came to what the “artist” wanted the veiwer to see [...]