Visual Art

Our topic for this week was all about visual art. Ms. Castro started it off with showing us different kinds of advertisements. With the advertisements, we unraveled the secret in different modes of commercials. The class, with the facilitation of Ms. Castro, has decided that the commercials gets into us more, the more we ignore them. This is because we do not "screen out" all the visual stimuli bombarded through our sense of sight. And that when we learn to challenge the "messages" that they try to project, we can actually discriminate or "screen out" certain things that may affect us negatively.

We then eventually jumped to the discussion of paintings. And when we hear of paintings, ask 20 people what comes into their mind when they hear the word "painting", and most likely 18 or 19 out of 20 will mention "Mona Lisa".

Throughout the years, since the painting was made, man had already been asking and trying to probe deep into the painting's real essence.

That smile. That smile is what the whole controversy is about. Is she really smiling? Is she sad? Is she depressed? Or is it just her normal pose? Along with that are the other controversial elements involved in the analysis and investigation of the said painting. They are considering the background of the painting. They are also considering the pyramidal shape of Lisa's body. And one possible meaning that the "Mona Lisa" may portray is that it is about life. Why woman and not a man? Well basically because the moman is responsible for bearing leaders. The woman is the one who provides presidents, senators, singers, artists, and everyone else. For we all come from a woman, and with a woman's love and care, we are what we are right now. Also to support that "life" theme, the background is a landscape of nature, which in itself represents life, with all its greeneries and blue bodies of water.

No doubt, this is a masterpiece. So what makes an art a masterpiece? Basically, an art is considered a masterpiece when that certain art continues to persist throughout time, while still retaining its beauty and mystery. It will be considered a masterpiece when it still continues to bring out questions in us. For according to Ms. Castro, we live on this earth with a purpose, because we ask questions. Life will cease existing when questions stop being asked.