What an artwork represents is not its existing form or anything we can see with our eyes. The real meaning behind the artwork, which can only be seen by heart is the theme of the work. To artists, the theme of a work may not be as same as his or her big idea, but should be a part of it. Thus, a big idea usually is the theme throughout an artist's career. As it indicates in Walker's article Big Ideas and Artmaking, the great painter Van Gogh spent his whole career life to portray human emotions. Apparently, chosing a right idea is important to an artist. The idea should be connected to the artist's personal experience so that he or she can better express the idea in different forms of artwork. A real art can only be created when the artist has a deep understanding of the idea.
I like Walker's article and didn't find anything difficult or problematic in it. I agree with Walker's opinion of big ideas of artwork. The most important thing is that he did a really good job on writing an understandable article about art, since art is always abstract.
In Barrett's article Interpreting Visual Culture, he indicates an opinion that people may have different interpretings to a image based on their own culture and experience. It is ture and really normal in our daily life. People always have different understanding of a same image because they get used to link the image to his life, different backgrounds create different interpretings.
The writer also shows that people in different ages have their own understanding with an experiment of preschool children. I think that sometimes adult sometimes can't understand what kinds thought. Maybe our interpreting of their behavior is not what the kinds want to express.
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