Blog 3

Big Ideas and Artmaking

After I read of this article, I learned about the importance of “big idea” to an artist. The article is very organized. The author explains how big ideas relate to art making. He suggests that personal interest plays an important role in an artist’s choice of ideas. The article also mentions that the difference between themes and big ideas., and subject matter and big ideas. 

Basically, I enjoyed reading this article, but it is still hard for me to understand the difference between an artist’s big ideas and the themes and also the difference between an artist’s bog ideas and subject matter. Also, I think following a big idea may be one thing to limit an artist.

Interpreting Connotations in Visual Culture

In Barrett article, I like the part that he analyzes many different connotations and denotations and how differently students see it. He uses the Rolling Stone magazine cover as an example of connoted image and linguistic message in the article. This example is easy to understand for me. He provides some new ways of seeing magazine covers, commercials, and posters, which I had never thought about. I like how Barrett goes through by age group and look at how they view different things with different connotations.

It is very hard for me to get into this article. I felt it goes through a lot of different ideas and does not stick to one main point. The author moves from one idea to another pretty fast to me. I had to read some parts of the article three times to really understand what he was trying to say.