These quotes ring home for me and they especially did following the New York trip. There has been so many times that I have looked at art and only seen it for the picture it displayed and not the meaning behind it. The quote by Gomez-Pena about seeing art through new eyes will happen once you open your mind and heart to what is being displayed in the art. This is what happened to be on the New York trip, the images and art really started to change my perspective on how I viewed different subjects. Even art, that at first glance was distasteful to me, started to evolve and blend together for me to see the bigger picture. I saw the meaning behind the nudity or graphic nature of photographs or the symbolism of why the Madonna-and-child artwork was using celebrity faces. Art is about breaking the boundaries of what is known to each person to create an alternative view to evolve new feelings for the artwork.
Education will defiantly turn mirrors into windows. I always thought that viewing a mirror into yourself was what was important in order to change things internally. However looking at the world through a window would provide the inspiration to change externally and learn whatever that window offers you to behold. Artwork specifically has begun to change my mirrors into windows. For once I am not looking at the art and only seeing what I believe, but I am looking at artwork and seeing through it to explore what the artist wants to convey. The window will allow each individual person to take away from the art what they wish to and broaden their horizons to see certain subjects with new light. Protest art especially, like the art seen in New York, will evoke new feelings on subjects that one may never had paid attention to before and that is the purpose of the window. The window in protest art will show the struggle of the artist to someone who may have never experienced that struggle before, thus opening their eyes to new visions, which is what education is all about.
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