John Berger Chapter 1 Quotes & Responses
"Images were first made to conjure up the appearances of something that was absent. Gradually it became evident that an image could outlast what it represented; it then showed how something or somebody had once looked - and thus by implication how the subject had once been seen by other people."
When I read this quote, I always think about how when we see ourselves in the mirror, it is not the same way people see us. Especially when it comes to our hair. We style our hair one way in the mirror, but when people see us in real life they see us from a different angle. It's the same way as our personalities. I read somewhere once that we have 3 faces or 3 personalities. The first face is the one we show to everyone, the second is the one we show to a select few and the third and final one is the one we show to no one.
"The invention of the camera also changed the way in which men saw paintings painted long before the camera was invented. Originally paintings were an integral part of the building for which they were designed."
This one stood out to me because of how interesting it is. These days we paint things mostly from photographs but if someone wanted to paint something, they had to base it off of real-life things and models as well if they wanted to paint humans.
Khan Academy Performance Art
The first performance art that stood out to me was Violence and masculinity. It is a painting of soldiers fighting for their lives and is depicted as a dark and dreary painting. It stood out to me because back then when the draft existed, men my age had no choice but to go and fight a war that they didn't want to. They had no choice and had to put their lives on the line. For what? For war to keep happening many years later? What was the point? It always upsets me that they never had a say in the matter.
The second performance art that stood out to me was Marina Abramović, The Artist is Present. Watching this one in class was interesting because you could quite literally view the artist's work and if you had a question, you could ask them! I find that so fascinating and while I do think that making up your own perception of someone else's work is cool and all, I think telling the story of how you made it and how it came to be in the first place is also a really unmatched feeling.
Yoko Ono's Influence Quotes & Responses
"Yoko Ono has been, without a doubt, one of the most misunderstood artists in the past 60 years. It is her massive fame, association with the Beatles, and heal-the-world rhetoric that have obscured her groundbreaking contributions to the world of art of the 1960s and beyond. Her wide-ranging artistic expression encompasses film, sculpture, text, performance, music and artwork. Although eclectic in nature, her work has been often greeted with incomprehension, mockery and even rage."
I personally think Yoko Ono is a brilliant mastermind and if people don't understand her work or her ways, then so be it. People thinking that she was the one who broke up the Beatles is just a really weird statement. What John Lennon chose to do with Yoko is his business and people are just too quick to judge.
"Today, Yoko Ono continues to express her artistic practice strongly as ever. In 2011, the 78-year-old made history as the oldest artist to have a number-one dance hit with her single Move on Fast. Her musical career has received positive acclaim and her songs have been reworked by famous artists like Basement Jaxx and the Pet Shop Boys."
I just find it amazing how she is still kicking with her career and has not given up. I can't imagine how hard life must have been for her after Lennon died, but she proved to be resilient and move on with her life because I feel that's what Lennon would have wanted her to do.
Interview with Shaun Leonardo
"I offer that narrative with the recognition that, over my life and professional career, I have witnessed young people be easily derailed when they don’t see themselves in the representation of who is creating."
I think the most important thing for young artists like myself and my classmates in this class is if you want to do something or dream of something, just do it. I feel like Leonardo's quote in this instance represents that and he doesn't want us to give up on our dreams - no matter how small or big they are.
"I think the larger challenge surrounding not only the pandemic but also the converging crises of racial justice, reproductive rights, and everything else is the immediacy with which we are being called upon to act. This is infiltrated and influenced by social media and the sort of commotion and chaos of the news cycle: we feel compelled to act, act, act—to respond, respond, respond—and artists don’t operate best in that rhythm."
I understand what he means in this and I 100% agree that fighting for your rights is important in every aspect, but not everyone can go out to large riots in these big cities. But that doesn't mean you can't advocate for your rights another way and that's publicizing it on social media. I think what he means also is that artists tend to take their time with their works and being rushed is something they hate (I can vouch for that).
Sunny Afternoon
This week, I decided to recreate the poem I made from inspiration from Yoko Ono's poems from her book Grapefruit. I wanted to make these images as close as possible to the actual poem and I really did enjoy it. "Almost 50 years after the publication of her book of conceptual instructions Grapefruit Yoko Ono has picked up where she had left off." It makes me happy that she decided to make another book with more poems and drawings as well. "This beautifully designed book also features Yoko Ono's 100 black-and-white drawings. Wildly original, stimulating, and hard to label, this book may actually change the way you think and experience the world through this purposeful play, bran poetry, guided motivation, or even Zen-like incantations." Below are my images and I hope you all enjoy them.
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| Deep inside the soil |
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| Within the flowers |
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| Surrounding the grass |
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