Art is often perceived as something that is too subjective to be real. People who pursue art careers are seen by the majority of society as unrealistic and immature. Art is something that is able to reach into the deepest parts of the human soul and express, with or without words, something that is hard to express. Growing up, I was always someone who was interested in the art of storytelling, no matter the medium. Whether stories are told through movies, music, tv shows, books, or video games, I’ve always been passionate about them. Physical art like painting and sculptures never captivated my interest as much as other art mediums, but does share a lot in common with them and therefore has my appreciation. What is simple to one person may be deep and introspective to another. Art represents the human soul in a way nothing else does. It represents differences, similarities, beliefs, passions, thoughts, and perceptions. I have written short stories in the past and now am focusing more on music and film. Art, although often thought not to be, is very important to the growth of a society and is something that I’ve always wanted to pursue.
My Art Story
For a very long time, art to me has always been paintings and drawings. I am terrible at drawing. I grew up being told that if you didn’t know how to draw, you were defined as bad in art. This was not until I took an art class in the 12th grade where my teacher taught me that art is what you want it to be. Art is completely subjective. I see art as a form of expression through whatever aspect is may be. Some may express their art through their paintings and drawings and some may express art through simply their style and clothing. Art has no boundaries. What may seem important and deep to one person may seem ordinary and plain to another. Art is a matter of perspective and how different people view various art forms. I eventually learned that drawing doesn’t define art. Through different perspectives, art is inspiring in its own way and until one discovers the skill of seeing art through different perspectives, they will never truly appreciate the beauty of art. I took Art history because I want to learn more about how artists use different techniques to create depth in their pieces.
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Step 3) There will be a drop link that has options for “Post”, “Media”, and “Document”. Click on “Post”.
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Pedagogy and Power Blog Post
Q: What is the banking model to Friere? Who does it empower or disempower, and at whose expense? Do you have any experience with this model? If so, describe an encounter that you have had with the banking model and reflect on it, both positives and negatives.
A: To Friere, the banking model is a model at which that spreads information to ones in which that seek information, but the one spreading the information isn’t taking into consideration the feedback input from the ones who receive said information.
An example of this can be see in the standard classroom model. Where students, information seekers, receive information from a teacher, the one spreading the information. In this, the models empowers the teacher as an authoritative figure and the students are disempowered as they’re expected to sponge up the information, and aren’t learning from each-other; a dehumanizing experience.
Im currently facing this model in the Earth Science Lecture class. My Professor gives us the information but im not adapting fast enough to what is taught, so I feel as if im falling behind. The benefit of this model can be that it allows a singular guide line for what is to be expected to be done. The con of this is that of its almost like a one size fits all approach to teaching, as it will work different for everyone and not everyone learns the same. In my situation, I feel as if I have to study more after class inorder to retain the information inorder to follow along with that is being taught in the course.
Pedagogy and Power
The banking model to Friere is a concept of education. This concept of education defines students as empty vessels that are filled with information by their teachers. The ones who are empowered by this concept are the teachers and educators who deposit information into the empty vessels, the students. On the other hand, the ones that are disempowered by this concept are the students since they essentially know nothing because they are “empty”. The students are the ones who are at loss when it comes to this concept since the students don’t understand what they are taught, instead the take the information they are given, memorize it, and use it to get receive good grades on test but they never truly gain any knowledge.
An experience that I have had with this form of teaching occurred in my honors physics class during my junior year of high school. My teacher would always just have slides full of information and instead of explaining them he would just read what was on the board. However, when he did explain them the majority was still unable to understand the information that we were given. As a result the majority of the class had poor grades, reflecting their lack of knowledge in the subject. Although my experience with the banking model was mostly negative it was also positive in the sense that it taught me and my fellow classmates how to study on our own so that we we would able to understand the information we were given during class.
MD: Pedagogy and Power
Michael DeGennaro- Post#3 / Art 1010
Pedagogy and Power: What is the banking model to Friere? Who does it empower or disempower, and at whose expense? Do you have any experience with this model? If so, describe an encounter that you have had with the banking model and reflect on it, both positives and negatives.
The banking model is Friers’s concept of education. It is a concept in which the teacher is the active being and the students are passive “objects” in the classroom. The students are essentially sitting down and listening to a teacher making “deposits” of education, which they memorize information, and repeat this process daily. Frier explains that this type of education allows for no intellectual growth in students, as they are simply intaking information that means nothing to them.
I have actually had an experience with this model of education. In sophomore year of high school, my geometry teacher perfectly emblemized this model. I remember the daily routine of the class. I’d enter, as he was sitting by his desk, and he would request silence, and move to the center of the class room, and take “control”. He began to lecture about factoring polynomials and finding what the circumference of “x” was. No speaking, no questions, nothing. We as the students sat down for an entire hour, listened to him talk, pack up, leave, and repeat this for an entire school year. As I reflect on this now, Friers’s conclusion that education of this manner allows for no intellectual growth can be applied to my situation. When someone is simply talking for an entire hour and doesn’t have dedicated times set aside for questions and comments, there is no brain stimulation. The process is in a way robotic, and we the students are not interested, because there isn’t time to think. We are overwhelmingly being fed geometric concepts. We don’t make connections with the material being “collected.” The only positives I can think of from this model include being fed lots of information, and covering many concepts in school.
My Art Story
What is Art?
For a long time whenever I would hear the word Art the first thing that came to my mind was Drawings, paintings, sculptures, things I would do in my art classes at school. I later learned that Art is much more than that, it’s a way to express yourself and it can be found everywhere like for example architecture. Since I was little I enjoyed drawing and seeing how the use of different colors and shades could make things pop. Another form of art I enjoy and is part of my daily life is music. I express myself through the various music I listen too. While taking this class I would like to learn more about art in general, its vocabulary, techniques, its origins and how it has impacted it history.
How to Post
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Step 1: Find the site
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Step 2: Once you’re on the site look to the upper left corner, there you will see Fall 2018 Art 1010 at Brooklyn College Click on it
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SN: Formal Analysis
Formal analysis is when a person finds the answers to questions in artwork rather than using outside sources as help. The discovery is the author’s accomplishments and we use the four components to find the message in the artwork.
When we say formal analysis, we are looking at an artwork to understand the authors message. Many people interpret ideas in their own way and that shapes the persons’ interpretation of the artwork. The components of formal analysis are:
- Color- indicates the color hues, range of colors and saturation
- Line – artists uses linear contours, emphasizes lights and darks and can be broken up or outlined strongly
- Space & Mass – artwork has a three dimensional space and/or substantial forms (weight/volume)
- Scale – relative size within the work and to the viewer
SN: Pedagogy and Power
The banking model to Friere is a concept of education where students take in and receive information as well as storing it. It is a metaphor that compares students to empty containers that teachers must fill with knowledge. It empowers the educator and disempowers the student to the extent where the student must give back that information on the assessment. The students have to receive the information, memorize the information needed to pass the test at the end of the lesson to then repeating it consistently.
In high school, my junior year math class, my teacher forbid us to take notes and we had to memorize the information he told us at the moment he told his students. It helped very little students, but hurt a lot of us, including me because we had nothing to review when it was time to take the test.
In my senior year music class, my teacher gave us the information we needed through speech, videos and music for the final exam and we all memorized it daily until it was test day. She would review all the terms we needed to know and every specific detail that each one of her students passed the final she gave with high scores and she was very proud of us.
