questions for peer blogs, links attached, etc

My comments on:
-eleanor's blog about art gallery visit http://artandeleanor.blogspot.com/2011/10/responding-to-artwork.html

-eleanor's blog about slideshow http://artandeleanor.blogspot.com/2011/09/elements-and-principles-slideshow.html

My comments on:
-rachel's blog about art gallery visit http://higginsartthoughts.blogspot.com/2011/10/albright-knox-visit.html

-rachel's blog about slideshow http://higginsartthoughts.blogspot.com/2011/09/photography-reflection-journal.html


  I agreed with the elements and principles that this student chose.  I felt that the image she chose for shape could have also fit into the texture category.  Her image for unity also shows space in it as well very nicely.

 Yes, Milton Avery's "Bucolic Landscape" was an image we both chose.  Her take on the artwork was much deeper than my own and we saw different things.  I looked at the artwork as more of a peaceful setting on the pasture while she found it very differently.  I can see where her thoughts came from after analyzing the work a little more.  Claude Monet's "Tow-Path" piece was also chosen by both of us.  I related the image to the changing of the seasons here in Buffalo and Monet's work reminded her of a place she had been as well.

I feel that reading our peers reflections gives us a chance to see other viewpoints and reactions to works of art.  Without that, we would only know what we think and we wouldn't have a broad range of ideas.  By responding and having others respond to our ideas, we become more cultured in a way.

I find some comments helpful.  Of course we are not always going to agree with all of our peers thoughts, but at least we can see what they have to say.