Monday, October 12, 2009

Art 220 Day 5

Today in class we discussed images we collected from home. All images were entirely different and brought different things to the table. We were dissected into groups and had to describe these images using expressive terms and phrases. If an image portrayed a certain action or motion we had to explain the opposite. I think that the idea was to imagine all the wrong concepts and how they wouldn't work. In figuring this process out, the class learned that sometimes thinking backwards or out of context is the way to go about an idea. Thinking strangely or out of the norm to come up with a specific idea might make that idea more compelling or interesting because of the thought process. This concept is interesting to me because it brings out ideas out of order, possibly the good ones first. Sometimes stating the obvious isn't the way to go about an image. Thinking out of context brought different opinions and beliefs and was a good exercise to quickly come up with visualizations of ideas.

conservative-holding to traditional attitudes and values and cautious about change or innovation, typically in relation to politics or religion.
antisocial- worrisome antisocial behavior: sociopath, distasteful, disruptive, rebellious, misanthropic, asocial.
spacious- roomy, capacious, palatial, airy, sizable, generous, large, big, vast, immense; extensive, expansive, sweeping, rolling, rambling, open; formal commodious.

2 comments:

  1. it was cool to have other people's ideas pool in on an exercise like this. since other people see things differently or similarly, there is always room for new ideas.
    the exercises were fun in the end when we heard everyone else's ideas, some of which we would have never even thought of

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  2. I liked the idea of how we sat in a circle and expressed are images to one other and how each of us had different meanings to are image, for example, some the students had the same image but different words or phrases like the shoes and the girl, i thought that was interesting.

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