The Second Lecture - OUAN401

History Of Image

During this lecture we learnt about the history of art through the ages. We began by discussing the pre-historic arts, large images painted onto cave walls. Image has changed drastically through out history, from basic images to extremely detailed realist images, and then returning to minimalist. As human beings we have gone through a rather immense amount of change in how we produce art. A lot of art is designed to create emotion, we discussed Rothko in the lectures, he was an artist that created large images purely black in design, and allegedly a lot of emotion is felt whilst viewing these images due to the artists tragic passing.

http://www.markrothko.org/images/paintings/rothko-chapel.jpg

http://www.mathematicianspictures.com/

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Another topic we touched on, was digital art. In this day and age art can be created, modified, stolen, re-produced all digitally. We discussed that important art such as the Mona Lisa can be found on cheap plates and mugs etc..., which inevitably kills some of the magic of the art, as why bother going to see the actual art, when you can find it almost everywhere. I do and don't agree with this, to me there is a certain magic to be found going to see the original. Where as seeing a copy can be inspirational, it doesn't hold the same value as seeing the original. Our lecturer said 'It's like using art as a weapon against its self.' which I think is a very cleaver way to put it.