John Berger definition of mystification through Hal’s painting In John Berger’s reading‚ he states that “Mystification is the process of explaining away what might otherwise be evident” (pg 103). To my understanding‚ Berger is saying that mystification is a way of what we think may be clear to our understanding of something. It seem as though Berger express mystification in ways that one may not grasp something clearly even though it may seem to be evident. By expressing this‚ Berger used the passage
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the World of Art - draft 4 In the end of 1950’s the Pop Culture had just sprung off the new‚ hip‚ and trendy for of art; free trade was the new “it” and consumption was higher than ever (Trentmann). Among this new era of what is claimed to be the era of freedom‚ there was a man named John Berger who sat in front of a naked man‚ drawing frantically on a piece of paper that later would become/will become (jag vet inte vad du tycker ar bast?) the groundwork of his essay “Drawing.” As Berger‚ writing his
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first essay of Ways of Seeing‚ John Berger claims that all power‚ authority‚ and meaning that was once held by an original work of art has been lost through the mass reproduction of these works that has occurred in recent years. He writes of an entirely bogus religiosity (116-117) that surrounds these art objects and that the meaning of the original work no longer lies in what it uniquely says but in what it uniquely is (117). He claims that because of reproduction‚ the art of the past no longer exists
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to see things. We see the image of the object first before the image is send to our brain and processes it. The essay “Ways of Seeing”‚ written by John Berger took art as an example‚ to show the way how modern people view art and the influences that traditional oil painting has had on society and modern day society. The way people now a day perceives an art image is different than the way it was seen before. People nowadays have the idea that a painting is an image that the painter painted and
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throughout the western world. John Berger stated in the 1972 BBC documentary television series Ways of Seeing: “Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at” (Ways of Seeing). This quote clarifies the male gazer’s distortion of the female form through the creation of a ‘better and more beautiful’ image‚ while forcing the opposite gender
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confronts several important aspects of art‚ unlike any other author. John Berger takes a general approach of Marxism and New Art History relating to social history in Ways of Seeing. He focuses less on the aesthetic properties of art‚ and more on the New Art History approach; on the social and political construction of artworks‚ mainly oil paintings concerning class‚ race‚ gender‚ and ethnicity. Berger also focuses on a Marxist methodology‚ in which he explains art works as the reflection of the values
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In John Berger’s article‚ ’Ways of Seeing’‚ it explains European eighteenth century art and how it relates to many of todays cultural transitions. Before Berger begins explaining the art itself‚ he tells us about the cultural constructions that exist today. These cultural constructions are enforced and were highlighted through European eighteenth century art. He began by explaining the difference between a man and a woman’s presence. Men’s presence depends how much power he is able to successfully
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no swirling infinite space or stunning foreshortening. | Baroque‚ infinite‚ foreshortening | 3 | | To lift up something as small and as at hand as a pebble or a saltcellar on the table. | Saltcellar‚ pebble. | 5 | analyzes Y / A | Today images abound everywhere. Never has so much been depicted and watched. We have glimpses at any moment of what things look like on the other side of the planet. | Depicted‚ glimpses‚ moment‚ planet. | 6 | | Yet with this‚ something has innocently changed
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the Meaning of an Artwork According to John Berger in his essay “Ways of Seeing” the way that a painting is viewed by some may already be distorted prior to analyzing it because we are not viewing the original piece. The information that comes from the silence of a painting is only truly experienced when looking at the original work rather than a reproduction of it. The original work speaks to you in a way that a reproduction is not able to. Berger says this clearly when he states:
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Liberty Leading the People “Every image embodies a way of seeing‚ our perception or appreciation of an image depends also upon our own way of seeing” (Berger 142). In other words‚ Berger is saying if ten people look at the same piece of art each interpretation is going to be just as unique and different as the person looking at it. Based on one’s knowledge of the artist‚ time period‚ and the painting itself gives a whole different perspective than someone who doesn’t know any of the history. Also
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