Reading Response - ANNA HUANG

It’s true; people want to see what they want to believe in. Like our memories we tend to block out certain events that are not so pleasant. In the reading package it explains how we see things in life. How we choose to “see” which led us to be aware of our surroundings, and also let us know that other people can see ourselves. When an artist paints or draws something they are able to choose what place, object or person to draw. They are able to use their own perspective, their own point of view in their drawings. Frans Hal is one of the few artists who were able to paint a portrait of people where others can see the personalities, traits and maybe even the habits that person might have. When we open a magazine, books or the internet and look at the photograph of paintings, we see an image that has been captured by a camera and being reproduced so many times the picture itself loses the original meaning. The meanings might start to change or it can involve into many new meanings. Overall the original image or painting is destroyed. Also because art can be reproduce so many times it’s being interpreted differently by different author of a particular book or an article. For example a magazine featured a picture of a little tiger playing with a mouse; automatically the reader would think it’s a very cute picture. Then suddenly the reader reads the small quote below the picture, “Tiger cub hunting its dinner.” After reading the quote it changes the whole story that the reader originally thought it meant. Which is the same as the example the writer used Van Gogh’s last painting for example. When you look at Gogh’s last painting you would probably say it’s a wonderful painting, but when you read what it really meant it definitely adds or changes the meaning the viewer originally had.