Hola It's Me Again,
Well, to start with I thought that in this essay he skips around a lot. At the beginning I was not too sure what he was really talking about. Towards the end I understood more of what he was trying to say. I think it was mostly the way he transitioned from one topic to the next that threw me off. At first he talks mostly about art, so the reader gets the idea that the essay is about how art is dead, but then he switches to technologies and how they are constantly changing. Then again, he returns to art, and the reader realizes that the essay is probable more about art.
Also, I do agree a little with what he is saying. Yes, everything is changing and there is always going to be something newer and better, but just because something else has "taken over" for the "lesser" product does not mean it has to be forgotten. There is always going to be "the next big thing" and everyone who "goes with the flow" is going to drop the old model and pick up the new one. Yet, there are some people who like the older products because that is "old reliable". Things from the past are not meant to be forever, but they are meant to be remembered, marveled, glorified. "The glory days" so to speak, which most of the time they are.
If Benjamin was able to travel in time and come to the present, I think he would have a heart attack and die. Ha ha, no just kidding. However, I do believe he would be shocked. He probably would feel that no art was truly original any more. Since, now we have the ability to create, recreate, edit, and enhance. There are so many recreations of original works of art that it is hard to tell what the original is any more. I think that Benjamin would given these new technologies every one can make art, every one can be an artist. So, therefore if every one is an artist then who really is a true artist? Honestly, I feel with this question there are so many possible answers, that I feel I am putting too much of my own opinion in to it. Well, I guess it is really how you interpret the essay. I feel that art is put more on the back burner now a days because before computers and cameras people counted on paintings to be remembered (events and people, etc.). So, painters were highly valued people. Yet, now we have cameras to capture moments. We have video cameras to capture events. We have programs, computers, printers, and scanners, etc. so we can create, recreate, and share. So, where is there a place for art? It's in time, minds, people, and places. It's every where really. We are just finding better ways to make it.
Ta ta for Now,
AMT
Well, to start with I thought that in this essay he skips around a lot. At the beginning I was not too sure what he was really talking about. Towards the end I understood more of what he was trying to say. I think it was mostly the way he transitioned from one topic to the next that threw me off. At first he talks mostly about art, so the reader gets the idea that the essay is about how art is dead, but then he switches to technologies and how they are constantly changing. Then again, he returns to art, and the reader realizes that the essay is probable more about art.
Also, I do agree a little with what he is saying. Yes, everything is changing and there is always going to be something newer and better, but just because something else has "taken over" for the "lesser" product does not mean it has to be forgotten. There is always going to be "the next big thing" and everyone who "goes with the flow" is going to drop the old model and pick up the new one. Yet, there are some people who like the older products because that is "old reliable". Things from the past are not meant to be forever, but they are meant to be remembered, marveled, glorified. "The glory days" so to speak, which most of the time they are.
If Benjamin was able to travel in time and come to the present, I think he would have a heart attack and die. Ha ha, no just kidding. However, I do believe he would be shocked. He probably would feel that no art was truly original any more. Since, now we have the ability to create, recreate, edit, and enhance. There are so many recreations of original works of art that it is hard to tell what the original is any more. I think that Benjamin would given these new technologies every one can make art, every one can be an artist. So, therefore if every one is an artist then who really is a true artist? Honestly, I feel with this question there are so many possible answers, that I feel I am putting too much of my own opinion in to it. Well, I guess it is really how you interpret the essay. I feel that art is put more on the back burner now a days because before computers and cameras people counted on paintings to be remembered (events and people, etc.). So, painters were highly valued people. Yet, now we have cameras to capture moments. We have video cameras to capture events. We have programs, computers, printers, and scanners, etc. so we can create, recreate, and share. So, where is there a place for art? It's in time, minds, people, and places. It's every where really. We are just finding better ways to make it.
Ta ta for Now,
AMT
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