Time In Blue Analysis

In art, there are qualities that speak louder than words. It expresses many different messages and emotions and each person has an experience different from the next. In this paper, I will be discussing two artworks I encountered. The piece is a good example of how people can encounter different experiences in one piece. I attended the Orlando Museum of Art a while back with family and overall enjoyed my experience. On my visit, I found the museum quite impressive and felt a deep connection with specific pieces.

Art- Art is a way of life, life resembles this art, but art rarely has to do with life, so look at it- enjoy it- and don’t spend your life trying to understand what the artist never planned in the beginning.

Nobody can really know what the artist’s intentions were except the artist. Therefore, there is no one “correct” way to interpret art. Art speaks different ideas to different people, and that is what makes it so diverse and wonderful. The fact that the meaning isn’t spelled out in bold black letters is what makes you want to come back to it, because each time you take another context out of it. It also is what makes us strive for art as an expressive medium when we have emotions that are too complicated to express in words, or if there is confusion in our thoughts.

It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words, but maybe they are worth far more than that. Pictures, although seemingly simple in nature, are extremely complex. Far too often, people overlook what a picture truly is. When a person looks at an image, they most likely see only the image, nothing else. Many people do not look deep enough into an image to fully comprehend the true meaning of it. However, when an individual begins to truly study an image in an attempt to understand the true complexity of it, they will be surprised at what they overlooked before. As stated by French Realist Painter, Gustave Courbet, “Fine art is knowledge made visible.”

The thought of art is more than what you see it is what you feel and what you learn from looking at it. Art can heal the soul and create and new outlook on images we may see every day. Sadly, we may not always see the art in things, pieces, or, humans.

As we all know, color is the voice for the artist 's sentiment. It makes up the appearance of a picture. Color is the decisive factor in depths of the two-dimensional plane of the artwork, making the viewer feel physically and mentally attracted, or the context of things - the phenomenon the author wants to present. Colors have been around for a long time, but there is not a common definition for colors. And perhaps humans are one of the luckiest creatures that can identify colors. Often, the recipient 's eye knows a myriad of colors and colors that always change based on the relationship between light and perspective. In art, color creates a sense of

In Light Blue Versus Dark Blue: Attitudinal Differences in Quality-of Life Policing, Lorenzo M. Boyd explores the difference between the attitudes of Black and White police officers regarding quality-of-life arrest. Boyd explains that quality-of-life arrest focus police resources on aggressive enforcement of social and physical disorders and not only crime per se (Boyd 38, 2010). In other words, “police believe that strategically targeting disorder and/or quality-of-life violations instead of just responding to service calls is critical in preventing serious crimes” (Boyd 38, 2010). This type of policing often referred to as Broken Windows Theory or broken windows policing focus on low quality crimes such as graffiti and vandalism. These crimes are often victimless and more likely crimes against property.

     Art, in each and every form that it comes in, shows us who we are. Our

This year we have read about so many authors and their views on family and love. Well, in this paper I decided to write about James Baldwin and how he incorporated family through his writing “Sonny’s Blues”. This story just screams about family from the begging to the end. Throughout this paper I will be discussing about his views on family and how agree or disagree of his views.

All works of art have a purpose or a kind of message they want to convey. When the artist is working on the piece they may already know the message or realize after the piece is complete just like

Sonny’s Blue started the story by being in a subway and on the way to work. He gets three-point flashback, which become important in the story. Later we know the narrator is Sonny’s older brother, he talks about their background of growing up in Harlem. Sonny, who used to be the good kid at young age, later turned out to be a heroin addiction. The exposition is when he saw an article about Sonny being in jail, after being caught in a heroin bust. The narrator who is now a teacher in Harlem, ends up thinking about Sonny and the hardship all his students will encounter. The inciting incident was when he encountered Sonny old friend and how he cannot help Sonny anymore. Rising action is when narrator writes a letter to Sonny after his daughter passed away.

The Blue Period was during the 1900s to 10s where Picasso and other painters painted in darker colors that gave a gloomy dark feel to them. You can see dark colors and themes in The Great Gatsby after the death of Gatsby like the death of the American dream. Nick had his dreams crushed after the death of Gatsby and his views of New York and the city disappeared forever. The same can be said about Picasso and artist that same the darker side of the roaring 20s. From the prohibition and speakeasies to the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, the roaring 20s didn’t have the magic that people think.

The most important trait in defining art is its beauty. As complex as the term “art” can be, the term “beauty” is nearly just as complicated. In order to understand art more clearly it is important to understand beauty. “We label an object beautiful because it promotes an internal harmony or ‘free play’ of our mental faculties; we call something ‘beautiful’ when it elicits this pleasure.” (Freeland 8). As defined above, beauty is not a direct message. It is something that subconsciously allows man to feel good and pleasurable. There is “an internal harmony” when we observe something beautiful that allows us to take away a deeper understanding of a work of art regardless of it being “nice looking” or “ugly”.

Art is simple. Art is complex. Art is everything. Take a moment, everyday, to find art in the surrounding world. By doing this simple task, the understanding of art emerges. This

“Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down. “- Francis Bacon. However when I learnt more about history of art and the way each movement and happenings in the world inspired artist to make new works, I was able to see much more than just a canvas with random paints and sketches. The interesting part about this concept is that each piece of art could be interpreted in many different ways. In contemporary art there isn’t right and wrong, each of us view and find different meanings and connections with artworks.