Welcome to the blog for Prof. John Talbird's English 101 class. The purpose of this site is two-fold: 1) to continue the conversations we start in class (or to start those conversations BEFORE we get to class) and 2) to practice our writing/reading on a weekly basis in an informal forum.

Monday, February 9, 2015

The paintings

Today in class we had a huge discussions on three different paintings. The paints include
Claude Monet, Starry Night-Van Gogh, and Renoir. These great painting are painted by all famous painters with a great unique meanings behind them. The paintings differ in many ways because it was painted from different perspective of each painters. The painter clearly uses different techniques and tools to create this beautiful art work. Also, they have a hidden message behind them. Paintings are just like a piece of writing because they all have a meaning and story to tell. It is slightly harder to get a "right" message form a painting because it isn't obvious like a written text, you might have to use imginations and your point of view to fully understand. Then again, paintings can be interpret in many ways as a person view it and relate it to themselves. Overall, it takes a great deal of interpretation and some critical judgement.  

I really like this kind of activity. I feel like it gets our brain thinking on a early monday morning and get the whole class to be engaged on a topic.  



Kimberly S.
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  1. JackFebruary 9, 2015 at 8:02 PM

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  2. JackFebruary 9, 2015 at 8:06 PM

    Near the the end of your first paragraph, you make it sorta sound like the different interpretation a painting might have means people have different meanings. In class you talk about the "ethos, pathos, and logos" which got me thinking what if a painting is meant to have different interpretations to get its full meaning through the use of the pathos (observers), because art is not meant to be looked at by only one person, but as many people the artist can get to look at it.

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  3. UnknownFebruary 9, 2015 at 8:24 PM

    I think that painting is a language, but its a language not all are familiarize with. I also like Kimberly agree that those painting have different meaning and that they can be observed from distinguish point of view.

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  4. Prof. John TalbirdFebruary 15, 2015 at 5:30 PM

    Great responses on the paintings, all. I like how you connect the paintings to the viewer, Jack, and particularly like your metaphor of painting being a kind of language, Miguel. I'm glad you liked this, Kimberly. We'll look at more paintings this term.

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  5. JackFebruary 24, 2015 at 10:39 PM

    Looking back at this post I think we all got confused about who we were talking to.

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