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    Megan Marti n

    Art is something intentionally constructed by humans


    which creatively expresses something they wish to
    convey to an audience.
    Art demonstrates skill, technique and passion which
    intends to evoke an emotional and/or intellectual
    response from the viewer(s).
    Theory I identify with:
    Mixed

    What is Art?
    Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
    Beauty is a harmonious reaction to nature or the arts
    or love (Stormy)
    Beauty is subjective to each individual and always
    changing.
    Beauty is something that sparks joy within and speaks
    honestly to some sort of human experience.
    Beauty is primarily a positive emotional response that
    forms a new connection with the viewer and
    someone/something else


    What is Beauty?
    No, a work of art does not have to be beautiful.
    There are many works of art that are not beautiful yet
    evoke some type of intellectual or emotional response
    that captures the audience.
    Example of the car crash, or a gory scene.

    Does a work of Art have to be Beautiful?
    Art Work Evaluation:
    The Lightening Testimonies by Amar Kanwar
    1. Color: The brightness and variations of color throughout the different
    scenes brings the piece together even though it is individual
    2. Space: The space of the room, the space given during each of the videos
    to create the emphasis.
    3. shape: The combination of movement, still life, people speaking, people
    just sitting/standing, and nature all combined were all different ways of
    using shapes in order to pull together the piece
    4. Value: The room, the chairs, the video clips themselves


    Elements
    1. Balance: This is found between the telling of the stories and the stillness of the nature
    or the people in which it is just showing the moving picture in silence and pausing while
    not speaking


    Principles
    2. Contrast: All 8
    movies going at
    the same time all
    tie into one
    another, and are
    about the same
    topic, and are all
    one piece in a
    whole, but yet
    they are all
    individually about
    something
    different from all
    the others.

    3. Emphasis: Two
    out of three times
    when I entered
    the room there
    was only one
    movie playing on
    the front main
    screen,
    unfortunately I
    did not have
    enough time to
    evaluate this
    importance, but
    this was
    emphasized
    above the others.

    4. Rhythm: The timing of the movies all playing together at once, and not interfering with
    one another, and even though being different, all flowing together is rhythm to me.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZtZYuKSxMU
    Addresses the political, economic, and cultural structures of contemporary Indian
    life, with a particular focus on abuses of power and strategies of resistance.
    Kanwars poetic visual essays combine memory, literature, and history to expose
    social injustice and create spaces of transformative contemplation.
    Explores the often repressed, always sensitive, and newly urgent subject of sexual
    violence against women on the Indian subcontinent.
    The work is a complex montage of simultaneous accounts, with stories ranging
    from wide-scale abduction and rape during the partition of India in 1947 to the
    powerful anti-rape protests in Manipur in 2004.
    Each projection features a different woman recounting a multilayered memory of
    trauma and resilience.
    Throughout the piece, Kanwar explores the many ways in which narratives of
    sexual violence are enmeshed within Indian social and political conflicts.
    The endeavor was created, in part, to break through the zones of self-imposed
    and communally enforced silence surrounding the issue in India
    What did the artist mean?
    Yes because it speaks to what I define personally as beauty. Even though
    these stories are sad, and unfortunate, they are motivational to me and
    inspiring, and overall very well created together in such a way that they are
    presented in. The artist found a beautiful way to tell these stories of these
    women.
    Is this work of art beautiful?

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