My younger sister (senior at highschool) is doing an art project. She's stuck for ideas about how to convey "blindness" through a piece of art. Not just blindness as in the obviuos but also about how some people are blind to the bad things happening around them. Any ideas, suggestions please???? Thank You!
2006-12-13 06:13:44 · 13 answers · asked by Andie 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Other - Arts & Humanities
Blinkers (like horses wear to make them less distracted by other horses in a race or things happening around them)
If it's a freestyle project, she could maybe create some, or sculpt or paint a human head wearing them
Or.... paint a human being with the head encased in cotton wool.
2006-12-13 06:20:11 · answer #1 · answered by belmyst 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The easiest way to convey this in any medium is to show a blind person begging while a seeing person voluntarily turns their head away as if not seeing the beggar. Then you are showing both forms of blindness interacting and creating a piece that invokes emotion for both figures.
2006-12-16 15:06:52 · answer #2 · answered by workmanbe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what medium is she using? what tools?
okay. well I see this in photography but you could use other mediums. It seems like the blindness you're talking about is a naive kind of blindness. which makes me think of young people. so, children are on subject-children sometimes cannot interpret the things going on around them and do not see the signs that something bad is happening.
also, someone not "looking" or watching what is going on physically, so, some one turned away from all the bad things.
someone with a blindfold on-thats kind of obvious.
2006-12-13 06:16:30 · answer #3 · answered by -- 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Site, sounds, energy, radio, heat and pretty much everything has one thing in common. Frequencies are it. Sound is a frequency of vibrating sound waves while site is based on frequencies of light energy. Light and vision can be though of as frequencies, or emotions of energy. This is why each color invokes some type of human reaction that is very similar for almost all people. Sine waves and the visual of a light wave versus a sound wave. They're the same.
2006-12-13 11:23:59 · answer #4 · answered by New Millennium Minds 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
how about a box thats covered in black fabric and people have to put their hands in it and feel the objects that are in it throgh the fabric , without knowing what they are. ie: a doorknob a pencil, an apple, or anything... then they would expereinece it as a blind person.
either that or recordede sounds of a day in high school while wearing a blindfold.
2006-12-13 06:23:12 · answer #5 · answered by Mrs. Me 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A picture or sculpture of an owl with no eyes ... blind to wisdom (since the owl often represents wisdom in many cultures). I wouldn't want it to be interpreted that blind people don't have wisdom though.
2006-12-13 06:18:31 · answer #6 · answered by Jesse2k 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do some research about Marcel Duchamp and his 'readymade' art objects. Your sister might find some 'found objects' that convey this theme: dark eyeglasses, a white cane, etc.
2006-12-13 06:17:13 · answer #7 · answered by ArmsAndMan 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
paint/draw a scene where loads of bad things are happening (crime, fighting, drinking etc) in black and white, then have 1 happy subject (someone laughing/smiling, taking a nice picture, eating) in colour-they're oblivious to their surroundings
2014-05-26 07:06:04 · answer #8 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What about a painting of a person surrounded by darkness? Or perhaps someone standing in front of a great precipice, seemingly oblivious.
2006-12-13 06:19:40 · answer #9 · answered by Lao Pu 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
oooooh...how about visually showing a small window with "good" things happening on the inside, but on the outside all the bad things are happening?
2006-12-13 06:18:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋