Art Experience

In my visit I went to the museum Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art on ca pus and I found a really interesting gallery. The artist was Elizabeth Keith and all the paintings were about the oriental culture. There were several different paintings. The first ones that I looked were all about people. About an old man, a woman, a daughter, a mother with her child or two friends that seem that they were chatting. I thin that the author is trying to express by the paintings how are the oriental people, how they look alike. Then I saw some paintings about landscapes. They were really nice but irreal, like fantasy. Some of the landscapes had waterfalls with tigers, dragons and kind of oriental angels on them. The last paintings that I saw were about two houses. At first I thought it was the same house, because they look alike, but they were in different parts of the day: one of them was I think in the afternoon, and it was all snowed and the other one was at night. Then I looked better and I realized that they were two totally different houses.
The name of the author is Elizabeth Keith (1887-1956). She went for the first time on her life to Tokyo to visit her sister and she stayed there because he loved the oriental culture. When she was in Tokyo she made several visits to Korea. The first time that she went there an important independence demonstration was taking part in Korea. And I think that in all her art work she tries to express how is the people in Korea in those though times. Also she felt impressed with the beautiful landscapes of this country so she did some of the paintings of these landscapes. Her work was well received in Japan even though there were problems between Japan and Korea. Even one of her paintings about the house that I was talking before became a woodblock because the people in Japan thought that this could be popular as souvenir for foreign visitors. This painting was called East Gate Seoul. In every one of her paintings I think that Keith is trying to express her experience in Korea and how were the people and the landscapes.

Art and Technology Article 2

This time I found an essay that is talking about art and technology and the influence that technology has on art. The essay is really interesting, and discusses how the technology and the people that work in technologies are connected to art. And also I really like because one of the main points of the essay is that the role of the new technologies has changed a lot and its influence in artworks has increased in recent years. I like this main point because this is the point that I defend since I start to read about the topic art and technology. In my opinion the evolution of the technology has had an important influence in the artwork that an artist can create nowadays.
Another really interesting issue that appears in this essay is that with the new technologies “Interactive artworks that could transform viewers into participants were envisaged and created using the media available at that time. Today the opportunities for including audience participation have been increased significantly by the widespread availability of digital technology.”(Candy and Edmonds, 1). I think that this is really important because now you can use art in many different ways that maybe you could not use them years ago because the technology was worse or less develop.


“Interaction in Art and Technology”. Linda Candy and Ernest Edmonds. Retrieved November 19, 2007 from http://crossings.tcd.ie/issues/2.1/Candy/

Art and Technology Article 1

The first website that I found when I was searching for the art and technology topic was a website about a company called Art of Technology. I found this company really interesting because is what they do is one thing that we are discussing in this week´s assignment. The company offers services to design a lot of different things but always applying the technology. They can help you to design in software and hardware. In my opinion this is a very interesting company because they can help you with a lot of different things and in different areas such as medical, aerospace or fixed and wireless communications areas. This is a company that is really creative and innovating in all the areas that they work in. This company has several different competencies such as studies and system design, electronics development, design and layout, software design and development or system miniaturization.
I think that this company is really connected with the readings of this topic because they combine art and technology b using the new technologies to design in the different areas that they work. So this is a clear example that with the improvement and advancement of the technology we can make art easier and the development of the art is clearly combine with the development of the technology. The better the technology gets, the better the art is going to get and the better the access that we have to art is going to be.


Art of technology. Retrieved November 19, 2007 from http://www.art-of-technology.ch/english/index.html

Creative Spirituality

How do you define “spirituality”?

You can define spirituality in a lot of different ways. It depends if you try to define sprituality through the religion or without the religion. In my opinion spirituality is somethig that the man uses to get away from problems and also to reach the satisfaction. Sometimes you can live hard moments but you can pass those moments if you go through spirituality. I think is related also with your imagination and is misterious. Is something that implies your soul,your thoughts, your heart, is something more than physical, is somthing that we can not only give one definitions becasue everybody have their own definition about spirituality.

Does spirituality differ from religion?

I think that spirituality differs a lot from religion. Sometimes spirituality and religion might be related and you can find spirituality through your religion or viceversa. But also I do think that spirituality does not neccesarily means that has to be related to religion. I think that there are a lot of cases of people who are spiritual active and make a lot of their life decissions based in spirituality and maybe these people don´t have a religion in what they believe.

How do you define “creativity”?

Creativity is something that a person creates and is original or a person´s imagination, something that is out of the normal status. A "creativity" person is somebody who is trying to do something new, something that a normal person won´t even think of it. I also think that "creativity" is one skill that you born with. In my opinion you can not become a "creativity" person by practicing or something like that. You just are creative or not, that´s it.

What is the source of creativity?

I think that there could be several sources of creativity. The first of all of that sources could be your own imagination, the creativity of an artist can come from his or her imagination, and in my opinion this could be the strongest source when you are looking for creativity. Also you can have external sources for your creativity. I t could be something that inspired you, a moment in your life, a person, a monument, a city, you can get creativity from several different sources but the first and more important is ypur own imagination.

Enjoying Horror Article 2

The second website that I found was this one person talking about his opinion about horror movies. He states his opinion, and then he formulates question so the people can put their opinion in the website. His opinion is that he does not like horror movies at all. He had such bad experiences in his childhood so he does not want to experience that again by going to the theatres to watch a horror movie.
I totally agree with him, in my opinion he is really smart because if you have bad experiences watching horror movies why should you watch them again? You are going to suffer and you are going to be scared for sure so I do not think that is a good idea to repeat such a bad experience.
But there are a lot of people that have a different opinion and do not agree with me. Some people in this website leave their comments and they say that they really like horror movies because they like the sensation that provokes to them the horror movies. I understand that not everybody feel the same and I respect the people that feel this way, I just do not understand it how can you find pleasure watching a horror movie.
“Horror Movies for People Who Hate Horror Movies”,(August, 2006). ´The Tattered Coat´. Retrieved November 3, 2007 from http://www.tatteredcoat.com/archives/2006/07/08/horror-movies-for-people-who-hate-horror-movies/