Week 10 Phenomenology

 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 exerts a lot larger, if subtle, pressure on meaning than is generally acknowledged by interpretation models that rely on either ignoring or emphasizing identification as solely determinative of the work's meaning.

My opinion on the mind and body being separated is that they cannot be separated. Our senses are utilized in such a way that they originate in the mind. Those signals are sent from the mind to the rest of our body, or vice versa. That is how we understand the world, recognize objects, and relate to them. We get our information via our senses of sight and touch. When we perceive texture in a painting, for example, we may link it when we have felt something similar, whether it is soft or rough. Because we don't have to smell a picture, we don't employ smell. Unless the artwork contains food and reminds you of the subject's scent. But this is how we perceive art and try to decipher its meaning by comparing it to our own life experiences. We may require more information, such as the artist's history, but we still rely on our prior experiences to decipher the meaning of an artwork. That is how we communicate with it. Interacting with others and discussing the artwork and comparing it to other people's experiences are also beneficial.

Many artists incorporate aspects of their own identity into their work. It might be a component of their culture or identity. We, as viewers, are unlikely to comprehend the work of someone from a foreign culture. That is why we must occasionally go further into that culture in order to comprehend the artist's intent and meaning. We may not always be able to grasp the entire meaning, but we may strive to come near.

connected to our own psychic desires, fantasies, and projections.

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  1. Felicity ClayDecember 5, 2021 at 3:51 PM

    Hey Julius! Your Blog post this week was super well written and made this week’s reading easier for me to understand. I really enjoyed how well thought out your post was and how you structured it as well.

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