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The main question of the blog post is "What is Art Good For?" Many people have to really think what is art and how it is good. I will be honest that was me thinking really hard about this main question for the blog post. Now let's begin with defining art to really understand what it is. Art is defined as the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power. Art is categorized into some many different types of forms nowadays. Two examples that Art is good for are film and fashion design. When you think of these two things, art does not typically appeal to being art in our human minds, but it is a form of art in a different type of media. Film is known as a visual art and the most important art form of the twentieth century. Fashion designing is the  art of applying design, aesthetics and natural beauty to clothing and i...

The photograph is shown in a rural area with a vulture watching a child who is starving for food due to malnutrition. Yes there is color to the photograph. The subject in the photograph is a vulture specifically watching a young child bending over in a rural area. The photographer did not help the child because it is said those children carry diseases. So the photographer instead stood there watching the vulture. The subject matter was spontaneous explained in the context of the photograph. The photograph did have an emotional impact when I first saw it. Some of the emotions that triggered me when I saw the picture were sadness, grief, and shockingly full of silence. The emotional response that the photographer was most likely trying to invoke was sympathy for the starving child. The photographer did not match my emotional reaction. I believe that the photographer was trying to make a statement because the concept or idea that was trying to be portrayed was should you or should yo...

The song titled, "Breathe Me" by Sia speaks strongly of social issues. The story it tells of a person who is going through a hard time of Depression and is using coping methods to make the pain go away. It's about feeling empty inside, and hopeless, unworthy. The theme addressed in the song is of Depression, Anxiety, and the thought of Self-harm. The song is a cry for help. The song speaks to me today because it has reminded me of a time that I was in depression and thinking about self harming myself. It was a few years back around high school, thought I was all alone with no "friends". I didn't realize till now that I never had any real friends, but now I have the most, wonderful two best friends I could of asked for. Here's a fun fact: Did you know this tale of the song was very real to Sia? In 2018 of an interview, she reveals that she attempted suicide and after that plotted her own death. This song is very powerful in short words. It is one of the f...

The poem I chose was "The Lost Pilot" by James Tate. The conflict being addressed in the poem is a man struggling with his loss of direction and control as I have researched among my resources such as the internet. The topic is about a man discussing in a poem about the grief of his father or a male figure authority. The overall tone of the poem is sadness. It made me feel as if the writer of the poem wants you to express the emotion of grief with tears. The specific words that made me feel this way are misfortune, rot, dead, and residue. My own honest assessment of the poem is difficult because I am, one of the people that can not understand poetry or like it. I admit I had to ask my sister and research online what the poem was talking about honestly, because I thought it was about the writer dying and writing about his death. However, that is not the case as in the poem it is about the writer of the poem grieving about his father. I had to search up a couple of words such ...

The film I chose for German Expressionism is Last Laugh (1924) directed by F.W. Murnau. The director has created numerous German films. The background of the film is about a proud, happy hotel doorman who finds himself suddenly demoted to a washroom attendant. The man feels humiliated and because of that he struggles to carry on with his life.  The Last Laugh refers back to the style of German Expressionism because the film involves the bold and exaggerated visual elements as the doorman drifts from dreams and nightmares, and different mental states throughout the story. The German Expressionistic scale of the hotel and the city is almost exaggerated and emphasized, to project how important it is to the doorman's identity. The themes that are inquired in the film by several synopsis were  psychological, fantasy, madness, betrayal and murder as its creators used extreme distortions in expression to show an inner emotional reality rather than realism or ...

I think these qualities are a part of yourself by using the traits of the person you personally dislike or traits that you secretly admire to really describe you. Yes, I believe I have described my shadow. I see the connection between myself and the person I personally know. The notion of the shadow might explain a reason why people are allured to villains because some villains have around the same qualities as some people just described. “My Shadow qualities” for this exercise were obsession, comfort zone, rejection, and confidence. When completing this Shadow exercise, I also described the person I admire, but not love most in the world. I think this says that if you acknowledge this part of your shadow that it doesn’t necessarily say you condone the behavior/quality trait. It just opens your eyes to see yourself to stop resisting the truth because we have strongly denied this part of ourselves.  I think this “Shadow Exercise” is to look deep within our own person’s self to accur...