Blog Post # 3 Assignment

After you watch episode 4 of Ways of Seeing (or even while you are watching it), provide short answers the questions below.

  1. According to Berger, how do “publicity”–what we would call advertising–images influence consumers and why is this significant?
  2. As he compares oil painting to publicity (advertising) photography, Berger argues that oil painting “showed what the owner was already enjoying among his possessions and way of life;” “it enhanced his view of himself as he already was.”  Whereas publicity pictures, “appeal to a way of life that we aspire to or think we aspire to.” Why are these differences important? What do they reveal to us about the production of images for publicity?
  3. Choose one of the “dreams” he offers or think of your own. How does this dream offered by advertising use imagery to manipulate consumers?

Blog #2

I agree that representations of women today objectify them in more ways than the renaissance paintings. Back then all men had were just that… paintings. Now with advanced technology you get more. Videos for example are just the tip of the iceberg. There are sites used as well. I think all women are determined by the male gaze. They all like to feel wanted and desired. Some women seek validation in the male gaze. But women don’t want to be seen as an object that men can use for their advantage and pleasure. They want to be desired due to societies portrayal that being wanted is something we should all want and experience. I think in certain cases women have control over the images that get put out into the media but in other situations they do not. I think women will always be sexualized, no matter what era we enter.

Greg Blog Post #2

  1. In episode #2 of “Ways of Seeing”, John Berger explains that the nude women in Renaissance painting weren’t recognized for themselves but instead for men’s pleasures. I believe in today’s society the role of women has changed dramatically but still remnants of those times remain. Women have definitely gained some control over their images in the media but unfortunately the reality of it is that some people still see women the same way. In the episode Berger states “A nude has to be seen as an object in order to be nude.”, in todays society I believe sexuality is starting to play less and less or a role in that statement. Male and female alike both objectify nudes regardless.

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According to what John Berger said in the way of seeing episode 2, women in the Renaissance paintings didn’t express their own nakedness by their choice. He said they try to please the spectator or the men painter. However, many women today have their own power, their own choice with their own bodies. Social media has changed the way people look at women. Men respect women more as equal human beings. Also, women don’t have to care much about how men look or gaze at them if compared to the past. So, I disagree with the opening phrase that Berger said about men dream of women, women dream of themselves being dreamt of. I said that because I think many women in the21st century are busy dreaming of building themselves for example running a business or dreaming of being a billionaire instead of that. As a woman, I don’t think sexuality plays the same role in the image of women today because nowadays we understand that women are not objects. Anyway, I don’t ignore the fact that when it comes to women there is a sexual aspect to think about. On the other hand, Women are a lot of things more than some objects that pleased some men. We see ourselves as we are, not identify ourselves by being looked at by men.

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There is a big change in the time, I don’t think that there is an objectification because nowadays social media has changed it. Back then it use to call the atención because of the meaning of the image or because of the posture of the woman in the painting or photography meanwhile today they want call the atención not with a good posture o a good glance, they want to show all the part of their body to call is “sexi photography”. There are certain people that alway follow  the gaze of the men but the time has changed so much that they do care about that gaze, now it just depends on what time of person you are for example, your job, who are your friends, what are your hobbies and so on. At least many of the people that I talk to about these things, they say that  “they don’t care about what people think, they post what they feel comfortable with”.Meanwhile there are a bunch of people just looking for the gaze of the men or women. I think that sexuality could play the same  role in picture or  painting and in the change of the time it possibly could have too. I think that picture and painting are in the same tree but different branches.

 

Blog post #2

Although women may still feel the same today about how they they are conscious about their appearances and what the opposite gender might think of them, a lot of women only care about what they themselves think of themselves. Now, women have more control over their images in the media they don’t always have to rely on the male gaze. Unfortunately a lot of men see women’s attempt of sexual liberation as something to do with them. One women talks about a book, “Which describes the way in which a woman is reduced for the sexual pleasure of the man she’s in love with to a complete object.” I think that a lot of women are seen as just mere objects or having their only purpose is for sex.

Blog # 2 Prompt

In the video, “Ways of Seeing, Episode 2”, John Berger argues about how women were portrayed in the Renaissance arts, which are often depicted as nudity. However, in modern-day art, women are not seen naked, but with different elements and styles of art surrounding her and the painting. The way I see it, some women could have control over their images, while others aren’t. This can be seen near the end of the video, where a group of women along with John Berger were discussing the old European art, and one of the ladies sees the paintings as unrealistic because she finds it to be exaggerating. Later in the discussion, however, another lady points out that women believe they are set with the expectation to look beautiful just by looking at the paintings. Compared to what Berger describes women in old art, a woman in art nowadays doesn’t seem to focus much on her and her body but focuses more on the style and meaning of the art itself.

BLOG POST ONE WAYS OF SEEING

Berger was stating that the art can only. be viewed in the place where it resides.An example of that is the museum. Also that when you add a camera it is just like an eye it can only see what is in front of it at any given time.So a photo  a  copy famous painting  can reside in your home or in a class room to be used and viewed at your leisure.

Blog post #2

In the Renassaince era, one of women’s main duties was to please men and only them. But over the course of centuries, roles of women has changed. We are independent, just as smart as men or even more. Women being viewed and used as objects is not the norm anymore. Paintings of women in the renaissance period had to be with minimal energy, after all they were there to feed an appetite and not their own. In modern time, the idea of women just pleasing men is absurd. Women are seen more, not overlooked at. They have control over their life without the need of men.