Visual Culture: Seminar 1
What is visual culture? what is beauty? is a rotting meat dress beautiful?
Some of the few questions brought up after our first lecture of the year... Though I remained fairly quiet (due to it a) being my first ever seminar and b) my inherently huge fear of public speaking... but I find it slightly easier to voice my opinions in writing... hopefully I'll be able to speak my mind next time.
Anyways, what is Visual Culture? I believe that visual culture is a term that can relate to art having it's own form of society, of genres that can be related to our own culture as humanity. With castes and groupings that resemble those not unlike our own. take for example Dada and surrealism, a sort of counter culture as it's very purpose is the not be art (also brought up during the seminar).
What is beauty? A large part of the seminar was based on whether aesthetic quality found in an object (such as that found in a flower) gave it it's beauty or if the idea and reasoning behind something gave the item it's beauty, even if the piece in question tends to be hard on the eyes (Sterbak's "Vanitas" was the main example behind this notion for the seminar).
Some of the few questions brought up after our first lecture of the year... Though I remained fairly quiet (due to it a) being my first ever seminar and b) my inherently huge fear of public speaking... but I find it slightly easier to voice my opinions in writing... hopefully I'll be able to speak my mind next time.
Anyways, what is Visual Culture? I believe that visual culture is a term that can relate to art having it's own form of society, of genres that can be related to our own culture as humanity. With castes and groupings that resemble those not unlike our own. take for example Dada and surrealism, a sort of counter culture as it's very purpose is the not be art (also brought up during the seminar).
What is beauty? A large part of the seminar was based on whether aesthetic quality found in an object (such as that found in a flower) gave it it's beauty or if the idea and reasoning behind something gave the item it's beauty, even if the piece in question tends to be hard on the eyes (Sterbak's "Vanitas" was the main example behind this notion for the seminar).