Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Mann and censorship

I am not sure whether i really like Mann's photography of her children, it's hard to say, but I think that her photos shouldn't have been subjected to controversy, because her photos look like so beautiful, and they are different from a lot of photos as Mann used very old camera, so the photos are all monochrome. From her photos, I can find a little sexualized and sensual, but I think that's not a big deal, I just enjoy those pictures.
Some artists often deliberately try to provoke us in a myriad of ways, but I don't think Mann is trying to. From her interview, I think she just does what she wants. Although some of her photograpy seem a little weird, maybe it reflects an artist's personality.
I don't think Mann should be censored, she's just an artist, also including artists in general, as long as they don't do anything involved laws. I think art is a medium showing diffrent points in our life, so we should see them in different sides and enjoy.

Monday, March 9, 2009

first presentation

We have finished our first presentation, i think everyone performed very well, maybe somebody felt a little nervous, like me, but it's our first presentation, that's fine. Next time it will be ok. According to the presentation, we can enjoy the music, learn the history, open up our ideas to create our imitation.... It's a good experience.
The most difficult part of presentation is performing to everybody, because it's different between in front of the class and at home, that's the different situation and feelings; however, I don't think there's an easiest part, because everything should do a hard work. Although we should do a lot of things, it's enjoyable, we can learn something useful from the process of preparing the presentation.
Each group's imitation is creative, like the last group talking about pursing the dream, and our group's "missing Chilumbia". These are so interesting.
Now we have a new unit about art, so I am looking forward to the next presentation.