Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Facultad de Humanidades
ARTE 3901-003
Art, images, literature, seeing…? So many ways of expressing an emotion, a basic but so
complicated feeling that we believe in, an ineffable feeling. Can we draw something that we
don’t have knowledge of? Love, sadness, anger... or it’s up to the person that is looking at the
work of art? And is it really a work of art? What is a work of art? The way that we see things is
in fact affected by what we know or what we believe. But is believing knowing? There is a big
difference between believing and knowing. When you believe it means that you have accepted
something to be true, or you are confident and have trust in something. But when we know
something, we have the knowledge, or better yet, we have the necessary facts and knowledge
A WORK OF ART in the visual arts is a physical two, three and four dimensional object that
function. And AESTHETICS is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty, art, and
taste, and with the creation and appreciation of beauty. It is more scientifically defined as the
taste. But sometimes is more than aesthetics… maybe ugliness, bad odors or negative
objections. Painters make choices and difficult ones, a photographer makes a choice of subject
and people make the choice of appreciating the art, and that concludes the market value.
In a film the argument is irreversible, but in paintings it maintains its own authority and
that’s why we can see it in many ways and beliefs. You see and interpret the art at your own
risk. The fact that the art of the past is forgotten because it has lost its authority and in its place
came language of images is our own decision. We have the choice to accept that the entire art
Is the social presence of a woman different in some kind from that of a man? Do you
really believe that he pretends to be capable of what he is not? That says a lot of a person who
pretends to be the dominant sex or leader. Maybe because we us women express our own
attitude, and define what can and cannot be done to us. Our presence is manifested in almost
everything we do, like gestures, voice, opinions, expressions, clothes, chosen surroundings,
taste, and many more. Are we consider a surveyor? Of course, we had to be surveyor because
we express everything instead the man expresses nothing, right? And to top it all, the way
we(woman) appear to a man can determine how we will be treated. Seriously…? I don’t even
have to say the word to determine how the society has put the man. Maybe its that injustice
doesn’t exist in a man’s dictionary. But if you see a nude man and think violently then a lot of
bad thing man has done to deserve that. Then there is belief, but more than that, is a
I want to emphasizes the story of Genesis in the Bible, says that the woman is blamed
and is punished by being subservient to the man. I want to ask… Why was she first created? It
wasn’t to serve the man needs? That doesn’t make her his subservient? And wasn’t man
created first to wonder and evolved… and that doesn’t make him a leader or better yet an
agent of God? It’s all in what you believe in and interpreted the stuff. And if that isn’t right why
in page 55 say, “woman are there to feed an appetite, not to have any of their own”? Men just
believe that they are superior to woman but the difference is, words, nothing else, in a book
that has more years than many of us and we don’t know if it’s really true of just a story.
Machismo is a word that will describe the injustice that has ruled throughout the years.
REFERENCES
Berger, John. "Chapter 1." In Ways of Seeing, by John Berger, 79. London: Penguin Group, 1972.
Berger, John. "Chapter 3." In Ways of Seeing, by John Berger, 79. London: Penguin Group, 1972.