Welcome to ARTS 3381 Video Painting. This will be the course blog where you will post your responses to readings and discussions. Whenever a reading is assigned, you will make a substantial post (a couple paragraphs detailing your thoughts and responses) the following week as a new post on this blog. Please include photos, links, and short video clips that illustrate your feelings about the readings. Looking forward to our semester together!
James Broughton (Coming into Focus) what I understand is that James had a traumatic event that he found safety in film and only film. His opinion on how sees film in his life allows him not focus on harming himself. All the energy is now focus on making film or cinema which lives and breath film.
ReplyDeleteSecond reading Stan Brakhage which I like his description of how innonce is lost when an infant opens his or her eyes to the world. Now it is up to the individual to really look at his\hers surroundings and see what it is not seen. Not everyone can see what the artist sees in his creation. But after that I am confuse of what he is trying to convey.
The excerpt from Broughton is, as I suppose is fitting giving the name and general theme of his book, somewhat enlightening. I feel that these two authors, in their openings, are trying to bring some explanation or definition to what it means to pursue the arts, and Broughton certainly provides are more clear presentation of his views. His writing thoroughly attempts to articulate the invisible mission and brilliance found in true artistic pursuits. I can't agree more with his idea that the artist is a seeker who tries to find something beautiful, meaningful, so as to capture it and hold it up to reveal that element or experience to others.
ReplyDeleteBrakhage's text is similarly elucidating, though unfortunately suffers from some unintentional obfuscation. The excerpt is trying incredibly hard to define something that ultimately defies easy definition. I think he is essentially discussing a sort of inherent and internal poetic filter. Poetry tries to describe subjects in such a fashion as to capture their whole experience, not just simple objective descriptions , and Brakhage muses on how this can apply to visual media as well as the drive behind the need to find a way to translate that true way of seeing to those who do not see what the artist sees. There is a greater mission of understanding the world, the people in it, visual manifestation of people's ideas, and it is beautiful and dramatic. I think that is ultimately what Brakhage is trying to communicate.