Week 10: Let's Explore a Vision

Mirzoeff, Chapter 6: The Changing World

“Even if all emissions were to stop tomorrow, the climate will keep changing for centuries” (Chapter 6).

“To see the changing world, we will have to set aside all of these time-honored strategies. We need to compare across time and space and learn to see from other people’s perspectives as well as our own.” pg.248

In this chapter, Mirzoeff discusses climate change and the effect that we as humans are having on the environment subsequently changing the way we see the world. He begins talking about the carbon balance and how human activity has changed the levels of carbon in the atmosphere and states. He also highlighted the fact that we should see these changes happening in the world and do something and see it in a different perspective. The first quote I had chosen captured my eyes, because it’s true what he mentioned, even if we did emissions something to stop it, the climate will still be changing for centuries because we can change a country or state, but not the whole world. The second quote captured my attention because I put it as a perspective that we see the world as what the media portrays, which media can portray a negative or positive outcome, but never seeing the different angle on how to see the world and putting our own thought to it.

Amy Sherald:

“She sees you seeing her. The hand on the hip is not passive, her gaze is not passive. She looks strong!” says Sherald.
Ms. Sherald explaining how she captured a portrait of her and stating that “she sees us and we see her”, gives her art life, making it personal, making her human and not simply an art, there more into Sherald artwork then just simply a portrait of someone.

“ ‘Breonna, what color do you want this dress to be? Please, tell me what color you want this dress to be,’ ” Sherald says she mused.
Sherald gave options to the people she included in her art making wholesome pieces, where we can tell a brief summarized story of this person's personality.

“Her style is a simplified realism, worked from photographs that she stages and takes of individuals who interest her, an approach much like that of the late, belatedly celebrated painter Barkley Hendricks.”
What I had gathered from Amy as an artist is that she is realism with her artwork from the first article.

“She activates the double function of portraiture as the recognition of a worldly identity and, in the best instances, the surprise of an evident inner life.”
She definitely tells a story of each person she included in her artwork.

A Vision of Beauty by Dattnan Martinez

Photo was inspired by both artists Amy Sherald and Kehinde Wiley for portraits of people and their personality. I took this picture when I went to a flowers farm. This picture was taken off guard, but a picture off guard can capture something so beautiful. I love how the flowers are all bright and beautiful while I am the center and expressed that I am happy to be there.