What I found very interesting about this lecture is how we see certain Images. The significance and power of certain pieces of art, why they are so powerful and how they become less powerful. I began to understand the importance of knowing an artists background to really engage with the piece of art work. With the Mona Lisa painting, It's not a particularly emotional painting, There's no real concept behind it and you cant really engage or relate. So why is this painting so notorious and so significant? The artist? Leonardo Da Vinci. Perhaps the gallery it is exhibited at in Paris. The amount of people queing to see it? One of the big reasons is the fact we are told it's powerful. With the digital age, it creates opportunities to take art and reuse, recycle them, do exciting experiments and transfer these pieces of art onto various items or clothing - It is no longer in the artists control and so therefore the orginal painting instantly becomes more precious,
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