02/28/2011 LECTURE!

Today, we discussed about beaut and realism. What are beauty and realism? We tend to think that beauty is beauty and realism is realism because we all know what it means without any explanation. But today, I began to think what really means in terms of beauty and realism. Is it a judgment or different view point for each individual? Now, I think that beauty and realism meaning depends on how you feel and accept the beauty and realism. How can you determine realism on plastic flower VS flower itself? We just know that plastic flowers fake? Or sense of feeling by touching? Smelling? I wonder if there are really real and fake things in our living world. Isn’t just how you feel? Is there any logical and proven idea to determine the realism and beauty? For example, let say two girl worn same dress. Some may say girl “A” looks better than girl “B” and others may say girl “B” looks better than girl “A”. Do we have the right to judge the beauty in our life? I think how I feel or how you feel creates beauty and realism. Depends on our different view point, right?

IDENTITY!

Are we born with IDENTITY? can we just scan ourselves which will determine our identity?

Today, we talked about identity. First of all, Mr. Glenn mentioned that art is always about identity. I asked myself and wondered how identity is related to artist and in our society. We all have an identity. For example, my name is Young Lee; I’m an Asian girl, and currently student from Cypress College. Is this considered to be an identity? Who you are in the present determines you’re identity? Can we change our identity if we desire to do so? Like how the artist expresses their feelings and thoughts into great pieces of art, and we determine and guess what their trying to express in the art work. Maybe identity is related to art in a way of showing different meaning of the works. For instance, Nikki S. Lee, in the pictures we’ve seen in class, it was amazing how she was adapted into the situation with different peoples. We can never change our identity for permanently, but for temporary we may do so. And I think for artist they are identified by their different pieces of art work. They can express how they felt in their real life into cartoon or even in a self-portrait. I’m still lost in a way of how identity is related to art but I think it’s something you create as you live and adjust into different situation. And maybe, our goals and needs for the artist as we look into their art work are to identify the meaning of the identity? Something I should think about more deeply as we go over more into IDENTITY!!!

IDENTITY = ART? Human being?