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   Week 12 Positive Images Photographs frequently serve as alternatives/enhancements to reality, such as wish fulfillment, idealized models, and what the late Raymond Williams could have referred to as subjective pictures.' Images tossed into the future cast a visual guidepost ahead of us for what we aim to become. Similarly, subcultures that are frequently underrepresented, misrepresented, or unrepresented struggle with a paucity of images that do not correctly reflect either their perception of existing realities or their ambitions for future realities. I can't think of another reason for the outpouring of emotion - much of it splenetic and censorious, sadly - that greets all but the most bland depictions of lesbians, gay men, blacks, and other socially excluded peoples. In consequence, we must learn to look at representations for both what they forget and what they recall; photographic absences ('forgetting') and photographic presences ('remembering') are bot...

  Indigenous techniques, on the other hand, are based on Indigenous epistemology, and they will (or should) be visible in such frameworks, exposing similar characteristics that may be identified as belonging to an Indigenous paradigm. What they're attempting to communicate, I believe, is that there are numerous contrasts as well as many similarities.  The exposition of Indigenous epistemology that follows highlights its non-fragmented, holistic character, concentrating on the metaphysical and pragmatic, language and location, values and relationships. These are characteristics of Indigenous epistemologies that constantly surface in Indigenous speech. The relationship binds them all together. Because it is completely intertwined with everything else, relationship is not distinguished as a separate concept. Indigenous epistemologies exist inside a relational web, and all parts of them must be seen through that lens. Indigenous scientific scholarship, in one form or another, refe...

  Week 10  Phenomenology When considering how artwork is viewed by the observer, the artist's aim is critical. Because the attractiveness of art is subjective, the audience may not always understand the artist's aim. Each viewer's impression of a work differs from the next, and each viewer's vision of a work is a step removed from the artist's purpose. Due to subjectivity, any definitions or explanations of art must be understood as very personal and situational working definitions rather than universal. The reality that the identity we give to a given picture or item is strongly tied to our own mental imaginations, projections, and wants. It is determined and experienced in a continuous, reciprocal relationship between interpreters and the objects or pictures we interpret.  Our view of the work, as well as the identity it offers to us, shapes our own sense of self. In this way, the identity associated with a piece of art is significantly more permeable, but it also...

  Week 9 Difference The article addresses tokenism during the 1980s. It is now 2021, and this is still a huge issue in white-dominated organizations, groups, and exhibitions around the world. Tokenism is defined as "the habit of doing something (like as hiring a member of a minority group) solely to avoid criticism and give the impression that individuals are treated equitably." Tokenism can lead to hiring for the wrong reasons or accomplishing diversity goals in the wrong manner, resulting in little change and no true inclusion. There are a number of things we can do to try to prevent this, including involving various groups. Make roles or employee policies more inclusive of persons who do not belong to your majority culture. This will increase the number of people. Tokenism can lead to the wrong people being hired for the wrong reasons. When your employees have similar lifestyles, the employment options and benefits available may appear to be comprehensive. But what about t...

   Week 8 Authorship   As humans, we enjoy learning about what is going on in other people's lives. We achieve this through social media, biographical films, and bios. Reality television is another option. We do this to gain a better understanding of who that person is. For example, we study about an artist's history in order to gain a better grasp of the time period in which they were born so that we may better understand their work. The same is true for musicians, sportsmen, and a variety of other professions. If we want to understand more about a musician, we can look into whether or not they have taken any classes to learn to sing or play an instrument. This, I believe, relates into the idea that nothing is original anymore. "The writer can only imitate a gesture that is always anterior, never original," the article says. This seems to happen in a lot of situations in life. We learn several approaches and ways to create great works of art, especially in art. By co...

"Why have there been no great women artists?" "Why have there been no great women artists?"  The issue with this question is that it categorizes women into a group. Why can't they simply be called artists? This is true in many other areas where men are overwhelmingly dominating, such as sports. To address the question, women may or may not have been able to become artists depending on the time period. There are some fantastic female artists. They simply haven't been given the same level of attention as most male artists, and they are rarely discussed. This reminds me of the sports world's attitude toward female athletes. In professional sports, there are many outstanding female athletes. Many people are unaware of this because the media does not cover it. Why have there been no great artists from the aristocracy?  Before Toulouse-Lautrec, no artist sprang from the ranks of any class more elevated than the upper bourgeoisie. Even in the 19th century, Dega...

 Aura "Printmaking is an artistic process based on the principle of transferring images from a matrix onto another surface, most often paper or fabric. Traditional printmaking techniques include woodcut, etching, engraving, and lithography, while modern artists have expanded available techniques to include screen printing." "The term ‘Analogue Photography’ refers to photography using an analogue camera and  film . A roll of film is loaded into the camera and the magic begins once you start clicking: light interacts with the chemicals in the film and an image is recorded. The pictures collected in your film roll come to life when the film is processed in a photo lab."        Printmaking differs from analog photography in that it employs a variety of instruments and techniques to generate a picture. They are currently attempting to create a print. In contrast to printmaking, where there is almost always a human fault in the print, there are less mistakes prod...