CAS AH 287 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Lists Of Transformers Characters
7 Nov 2016
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Whistler interested in analogy between painting and music. One might say that for some artworks, seeing beyond the artist"s intention to form a more indefinite, personal interpretation is, ironically, the creator"s ultimate objective after all. While ambiguity is standard in the conceptual contemporary pieces of today, what mattered most in early. American art was what could be read on the surface: narrative clarity, illusionistic detail, realism, and straightforward moral instruction. Perhaps, it seems, around the time avant-garde artists began to pursue abstraction, flirt with modernism, and challenge the aesthetic standards of the past. Consider nocturne in black and gold: the falling rocket of 1875. In the mass of shadowy dark hues, vague wandering figures, and splashes of brilliant color, museum-goers might construe myriad meanings from the same scene: perhaps sparks from a blazing campfire, flickering. Japanese lanterns, or visions of far-off galaxies mystically appearing on a clear summer night.
