Q&A

1    1.-What is the meaning of the words “highly organized version” in the quotation? Explain this kind of life version (of the piece of art) in any expression of art.

     

 It means that own imagination is created by yourself and only you can organized. You can imagine what you can. The opposite pass when you think in the reality because here the things only is happening it not depends if you like them or not. You can’t control the reality but your imagination can be controlled by you. 

2.-Is this anti-photographic copy the same as “highly organized version” of the real world? How do you compare this idea with Aristotle’s one about mimesis.

  It could be. Both ideas are about of the imaginary world. Well the first show a vision of your own imagination and how you can see the real word. The second only present the idea of art and the perception of its qualities. The common in the two ideas is that show how to see the imaginary world.
  

3.-Give three complete examples (from literature, painting and theatre) of a kind of imagined reality or world in a piece of art which is not available in any other way.

    


     Literature: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

      Painting: La Source du Calme by Roberto Matta.

  

    Theatre: Oedipus the King by Sophocles.

4.-What is, then, the relationship between real world and the imagined one? What is art for, then if it is not the truth?

       

    The person is the big relationship between the worlds. The reality and the imaginary world can’t exist if there aren’t people that can perceive or sense. Also, these worlds can be exist separated by the same reason the human people and our complexity in mind and body. The art is lie of somebody that has some truth. Yes an artist does paint because yes, he or she does it because need show his/her imagination or claim for abuse, injustice,etc. 

5.-Why do we play the game of “make-believe”? In what sense the artistic imagination is a window to reality according to Ryken?

     

     We play the game believing that the artist shows in a piece of art. We are trying to understand the piece of art and thinking the reason of exists of this piece of art. When the artist shows something wrong that happen in his or her époque like deaths, injustice or whatever.

6.-What is important to you own community today to be considered by current artists?

       

   Today you need do something news that it can escape of the common and that it sell. For us today to be an artist is difficult because all pieces of art looks like other and the marketing and the economy plays an important role.

7.-If you were an artist…what you would consider to be written about. Why?

 

   We would consider aspects like the reality, the horror and own feelings.

8.-Do you consider yourself a handicapper neighbour or are you the professional imaginator your own community is looking for? Why?

     

  We consider us like a handicapper neighbour because we don´t have the ability (developed completely) to do art or develop the imagination to do something brilliant. 

9.-When have you been given “voice, eyes, ears and tactile sense” when in front of a piece of art?

     

   When we stay in front a piece of art that is amazing. For Example when you walk in the street and you see graffiti or when you read a book that was interesting for you or when you go to the theatre sometime you have a new sense of life. 

10.-Name three pieces of arts which have given you voice, eyes and/or tactile sense.

  

       Jungle Tales by Horacio Quiroga.

   


     The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

 

   

      Divine Comedy by Dante Alligheri 

11.-What is the sense or meaning of “see” in Conrad’s words? What is the meaning (not your translation) of Ryken’s words? 

   

    Conrad tries to explain the process that someone has when see or read a piece of art. First hear its means when you hear the voice of narrator of a story and feel the emotion of characters then of this you can imagine and see the story. The meaning of Ryken’s words is that with the art you can discover the real word. It means with a piece of art you can know your past, your present and your future. When you are knowing the after you can increase your  awareness and perception of life and these things can help you resolving problems and see the life with other perceptions (or mature)

12.-What is one “vision” any artist has shared with you?

         

    In the philosophy there is one vision of world that is called solipsism. This idea refers that “only one's own mind is sure to exist”. Solipsism holds that knowledge of anything outside one's own mind is unsure; the external world and other minds cannot be known, and might not exist outside the mind. As a metaphysical position, solipsism goes further to the conclusion that the world and other minds do not exist. You can see that in The Life is Dream (Calderón de la Barca) or Solaris (Stanisław Lem)or in movies like The Matrix (Lana y Andy Wachowski) or The butterfly effect (Eric Bress)

13.-Name three pieces of art from which have received a certain “vision”. Explain.

 

    Siddhartha by Herman Hesse: Hesse shows here one character complete different to “Demian”. Siddahartha is the good bother of “Demian”. This book present a vision mystic of the world, and sometimes it can be considered like a self-help book.  

 

    The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges: This book is strange and confused here shows different point of view that you confuse and try to understand and relate with your own world.  

   Los Artefactos by Nicanor Parra: They are a series of objects, paintings, photographs, sculptures,etc . created by own  the antipoetic. These things are weird and they considered anti- cannonic. They show the reality of Chile or Latinoamerica .Show topics like injustice, the power of money, feelings,etc. 

14.-Name three pieces of art which have created delight, enjoyment and entertainment to you. Explain why.

     Un viejo que leía poemas de amor  by Luis Sepúlveda: has a well-written story where a character lives in the Amazon jungle and learn from the aboriginals there, and that settlers destroy your home and there are several problems. This book this book makes you think about how important your roots and you enjoy reading it.

 
   Demian by Herman Hesse: This book shows a tortured adolescence reflections; search that time, pain and suffering that maybe relatable and makes entertaining reading the chapters to follow.

 

     Los trenes se van al purgatorio by Hernán Rivera Letelier: It shows a reality of previous centuries in our country the crossing of a train in the nitrate pampa that passing the miles have some pretty funny stories that make the reader enter in and know the reality described in the book.

15.-Bring a poem or a short text which has produced those feelings.

             
                Self-portrait of adolescence (Pablo de Rokha)

Among green snakes and verbenas,

my status of a tame lion

has a lackluster buzz of hives

and a bark of burned ocean.

With ghosts and chains that cling

I'm rotten religion and fallen king,

or a feudal castle whose battlements

raise your name like golden bread.

Towers of blood on battlefields,

Smell of heroic sun and shrapnel,

of the sword of a terrified nation.

They are heard in my being, full of the dead

and wounded, of ashes and deserts,
where a great poet commits suicide.

16.-Name three pieces of art (bring them to class) that have deepened and broadened your understanding of yourself or others.

    



     The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. 

   

     Life is Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca.

 

     Sobredosis by Alberto Fuguet.

17.-Which have been “the things” that have awakened you a “wonderfully full, new and intimate sense of them” when in front of any piece of art? (Name three)

  

     32 Campbell's Soup Cans by Andy Warhol.

   

      The Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar Wilde.

    

    The Red Vineyards near Arles by Vincent Van Gogh.

18.-Give three complete examples (play, painting and statue) of enlargement of your beings, in Lewis’ sense.

  


     The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare.

 


     The Thinker by Auguste Rodin.

     

    Stories of Love, Madness, and Death by Horacio Quiroga.

19.-Explain why these piece of work have produced such an enlargement of your beings 

               

    The first one is a classic novel  that everybody needs to read  and your reading it understand  the reality that was showed it and you know William Shakespeare that  was a creator of “to be or not to be” the famous phrase that everybody use and sometimes don’t know it origin. The second one is a statue that is a man sit that represent the way of the people think. When you see the statue you can say that is very normal but this is that makes so special. The third one is a series of short stories  that are very funny, cruelly and weir that shows you a special way of think and see the world, sometimes scare you .With these 3 piece of art you enlargement you way of think and see everything around of you.