Ways of Seeing, Episode one. Notes


Tradition of European painting ~1400-1900
"Way we see them in 20th century, as nobody saw before" (photos of paintings?)
Process of seeing is not spontaneous.
Describes how the eye works and also similar how a camera works
We can see things at one place -> changed with the camera invention
The way only camera can see things
Free from the bounders of time and space
Camera changed not only what but also how we see things
Camera reproduces paintings
Paintings surrounded by different objects, sounds, colours (there are always different people in museums what also influence the atmosphere - is it better?)
Seeing in context of my own life
Originally paintings - part of the biding they are designed for
Paintings - buildings memory
Uniqueness of paintings are also in the places they are located
Icons
Images comes to you, you do not go to them
Paintings became a sort of information
They are still difference between reproductions and the only original paintings
Or not?
Religiosity around paintings are replacement for the lost when the camera made them reproducible.
Camera multiplied meanings and destroyed unique original one (the thing I like in paintings now is they could be understood differently, but maybe it wasn't possible before, especially when paintings were made instead of family photos, for example)
Works of art have lost and gained because of that
Most important - images of paintings are still silent and still, but lines of the screen are never still (is it still relevant?) and pages of a book
Stillness and silence makes a corridor between the moment it represents and present
Using movement and sound
The camera shows the concrete part of the painting and changes the meaning
It might be many ways to show painting (reminds a channel on youtube where girl makes trailers from one movie or cartoon but representing it in different genres by force of a montage)
(aren't people making the same things by themselves while looking on paintings irl - reducing the whole painting to small logical parts?)
Paintings might change a lot because of music (music can changes many things radically, it is really powerful when it comes to emotions)
(Before the music plays he says Van Gogh Killed himself after this painting. Isn't paintings history is the one who changes our opinion on it? Should we try to get closer to the master to understand the painting, or we should keep our own feelings upon it without knowing what sense was probably placed into the drawing?)
Meaning could be manipulated and transformed
It could be changed but what you see before/after or around (not only books but museums as well) +changing TV channels
It is not negative if we realize it
Images could be used as words
False mystification that surrounds art
Personal understating of art and how knowing nothing about the history of the painting the sense might be changed
Pictures like words rather holy relics

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