Postmodernism

-the double level process of interpreting and understanding post modernist painters like Vangoh 

          -placing the background or the historical context for which it is set 

          -the shoes what it represents in that time and place

-confused with utopian realm of the senses ??

-interesting concept that the idea of art comes form the gap between world and Earth or body and nature

-Warhol’s Diamond Dust Shoes "does not speak at all"! -bold statement

-central issue of postmodernism can be seen in Warhol’s paintings and its centralization on commodification

Kubler's, "The shape of time", gives fascinating insight on how "luck," as he says, might define who becomes a well know artist and those who might have had the same talent but didn't make it.
He says, "Times and opportunities differ more than the degree of talent." This reinforces the idea of being lucky and growing up at the right time in the right place. For example, it might be easier for someone who was born in a family of well known artists to become a famous artist himself, rather than someone who was born in the streets with the same or even more impressive talent to make it to fame. This is what happens to undiscovered talents. Furthermore, he identifies temperament and timing of entrance as the factors that will define the individual's chance of success and achievement. Another concept that he talks about and I found very interesting was the metaphor about the life cycle and how that relates to art and history. It explains how the life cycle is sustained by one unchanged principle of organization just like style is in art. It is not as we sometimes assume, that one historical style is unprecedented, but actually a recurring theme that was transformed into that specific style depending on the different environments.

Since the moment we are born we are exposed to images all around us. The increased exposure to visual context has helped humans develop the capacity of understanding what these visuals mean and the message they carry. In this video, we learn about data visualization and the components that constitute it. Something that really grabbed my attention was how significantly important visuals have become in our society. They help give meaning to things that have always been ambiguous or too complicated to put into words. It is through this means that humans can rapidly see, grasp, translate, and understand terms and ideas that were once unknown or difficult to understand, like numbers that are too big for us to even imagine. This can be seen in our day to day when we use google maps to move and travel to places we have never been. Another example is how images are used to portray data on the amount of people that fly on a daily basis or the number of users in the internet around the world. These data images bring knowledge and facilitate our understanding of the unseen, unknown, or complex.