Saturday 26 April 2008 @06:28
Qn. 1 Why do images, pictures, art have a powerful impact on us? They happen around us everywhere through different mediums and they come across as an inevitable element. We seek them due to our desire for knowledge and the influence of our culture. Our minds seek for things fresh and interesting during our human lives. I feel it is the lifestyle we live in that affects the extent of impact it has on us.
As we humans live in a systematic and organised way, we rely a lot on our visual senses, just like our ancestors did. The images or art we see influence our way of life, our mindset and thinking, though it may not carry such important and drastic changes. We eventually live on them and need them like a neccessity. This would sink in deeper and deeper as our lifestyle in the world evolves.
Qn.2 Why is the modern world dominated by unrealistic images of the body?As we are by nature drawn to our senses and refer mainly to our bodies. Our brains have inclinely wired the behaviour to seek the primitive way. Creating structures of our body to be exaggerated and I think its something to do with the need to express our physical and mental desires for the innate unconscious self. However, we are also influenced to desire perfection and be conformed by culture during periods of time such as the egyptian and greek periods. Both showed great dominance of constructing bodies.The egyptians and greeks both shared the same issue of culture affecting their view of the human body. They studied and expressed it through culture eyes. The values that had all reflected and represented a particular aspect of our culture in the human body, thus, creates such a highly influenced lifestyle in world.Labels: DM3231 MOPCU