One Day in my life and Response to Walker and Barrett

A funny car with Elk antlers !

A view from some chair near Oval, looking like a painting

The ad from downtown, really impressive

The apartment where i live, the harrison which is quite near campus

The lunch which my roommates and i made, a very traditional Chinese meal

The clouds seemed like be covered with a plastic bag

The trees are off leaves and bared 

The night view from Easton shopping mall

The salmon my friend ordered, and it was baked with cedar. Yummy, yummy!

The dessert time!

Response to Walker and Barrett articles

Walker

        The author in the article said that an big idea is not always the same as the theme and subject matter does not mean an big idea, which is really interesting. Actually, as for me, i always consider theme as the most important role in a art because the artists have to follow their theme. But now, I come to realize that there is big ideas that beyond the theme. Big idea is kind of a series of theme when they are creating their work. The author used the example of Motherwell's art. The theme of his series is death but the big idea is about human emotions. In addition, I think it is easy for us to tell the differences between subject matter and big idea. Subject matter is what the painting seems to talk about but big idea is the things the work really about. For example, if a painting is about sunflower, then sunflower is the subject matter. However, the big idea could be more diverse like happiness, strength, or anything that reflect the spirit of sunflower.

     I do not find anything quite difficult for me to understand this article actually. 

Barrett

       In this article, black Sambo is an metaphor that reflects the stereotypes. Due to the feeling of fears, the racists may create the black images linked with violent tools like guns or knives. It is also possible that the racists claimed black men are good at sports while they are poor in brain. In some degree, this kind of situation presents envy and jealous. As a matter of fact, it is not rare in our daily life. One may spread a rumor that his colleagues or classmates are dangerous to make others convinced they are bad only because he feels threatened by their talent.

     One thing that I feel a little confused is the example of Barthes' analysis of the Panzani spaghetti ad. In fact, I could not recognize how this ad reflect the distinction between denotations and connotations. From the article, I know the ad shows the freshness of the products and the Italianicity. Is the freshness means the denotations and Italianicity refers to connotations? I just think it does not illustrate the true meaning detailedly and appropriately.