{"id":256,"date":"2017-02-08T15:32:36","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T20:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/?p=256"},"modified":"2017-02-08T15:32:36","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T20:32:36","slug":"art-beyond-what-is-accepted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/uncategorized\/art-beyond-what-is-accepted\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Beyond What is Accepted"},"content":{"rendered":"

After today\u2019s class, there was one quote that we were reviewing from My Name is Red <\/em>which truly stood out to me. \u00a0This quote was, \u201cPainting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.\u201d\u00a0 I found this to be an incredibly important quote because it truly gets at the essence of the issue of this book.\u00a0 Is it an illuminators job to just blindly produce images that are accepted by society, or is it the artists job to represent and express their emotions and use these emotions to depict the world they see around them?\u00a0 Pamuk writes an entire novel of the transition from an Eastern world to a Western world, and how art and culture are developed as a result of this.\u00a0 The quote above highlights the same transition from creating art that is thought to be appropriate to the public to creating art that shows true artistic expression.\u00a0 I also find that he calls it \u201cthe music of sight\u201d because yes these artists are producing what they see, but the \u201cmusic\u201d comes from their idealization of reality.\u00a0 This use of idealization was extremely common in Western 16th<\/sup> century art.<\/p>\n

An example where I can see this transition is the first image we saw in class today that represented the love story that Pamuk\u2019s novel is based on.\u00a0 The artist is rejecting common ideals and notions for what is acceptable in Eastern culture.\u00a0 It is completely new to have a man gazing upon a nude woman, who at the same time invites her in with her gaze.\u00a0 This is also seen when the Modernist artists beginning in the 19th<\/sup> century began developing what was acceptable in art with regards to nudity and gazing.\u00a0 Prior to this movement only nymphs and gods were depicted naked, but now they were allowing ordinary women to be naked, and they were accepting the viewers gaze at the same time.\u00a0 This can be seen in Edoard Manet\u2019s Olympia <\/em>(1856).<\/p>\n

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She was not a goddess or a nymph, but still was the sole focus of a painting and was completely nude.\u00a0 She also was staring directly at the viewer drawing their attention to her nude figure.\u00a0 So truly being an artist and painting is more than just the thought of the spectator and the thought of what is acceptable, but art is about the music in an artist\u2019s soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After today\u2019s class, there was one quote that we were reviewing from My Name is Red which truly stood out to me. \u00a0This quote was, \u201cPainting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.\u201d\u00a0 I found this to be an incredibly important quote because it truly gets at the essence of the issue … <\/p>\n

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