– Becomes apparent that viewing art in a ‘clean’ environment is so important but conversely having the reproductions pinned around us can help us to connect to the art work within our environments. Then looks at how paintings printed within an article compete with text and jumping channels affects the impact / significance. – Music playing affects how we read the mood of an image demonstrated with one oil painting and two styles of music. Camera dissecting images change the meaning and he uses ‘Road to Calvary’ to demonstrate how the different dissections (by the camera zooming in, to look at details) can change the entire meaning of an image and to display the entire sequence of images requires a timeframe. – Silence whilst stood in front of an original painting is powerful and almost like a time tunnel. The days of pilgrimage are over now images come to us and we can fit the art to our own context. Paintings were once the integral art of buildings design such as churches. Now it can be reproduced infinitely and seen anywhere. – Observes, that prior to photography a painting was only to be viewed in a single place. It seems to be a man called Walter Benjamin who Berger took some influence from. #JOHN BERGER WAYS OF SEEING EPISODE 2 TV#WONDERFUL! Because where there is an ‘ancient’ TV programme, there is YouTube, and where there are a voice/ visual prompts I starts to thrive! (In the same way as teaching a child to add and take away using plastic chips.) I wasn’t even born in 1972 (just) but the references to ‘the other two channels’ was quite amusing and certainly something I remember.Īs Levi Strauss obviously held John Berger in high regard and been influenced by the notes John Berger has made in the juxtapositioning of art with music, text etc, I was wondering who John Berger had been influenced by. #JOHN BERGER WAYS OF SEEING EPISODE 2 SERIES#My tutor suggested John Berger’s book ‘Ways of Seeing’ and it felt like Christmas when I saw on the first page “Based on a Bafta award winning BBC series in 1972”. It took days to try and digest his foreword in “Between the Eyes’ but he isn’t somebody I feel that I can gloss over or ignore due to his name popping up in various different books. My tutor must have noted my turmoil having recognised John Berger as a heavy weight academic and my initial inability to comprehend his written word or his photographic work.
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