Blog #1, \u201cOrson Whales\u201d<\/p>\n
Tim Hubbard<\/p>\n
Representational meaning:<\/p>\n
As I watched the work for a second time, the representational meanings seemed to become clearer, even without a large contextual base of knowledge about \u201cMoby Dick.\u201d Of course there are elements from Moby Dick<\/em> which can be seen and understood as representational meanings within the piece, such as an exhibition of death and revenge.<\/p>\n Additionally, the piece serves as somewhat of a literal example of how art can come to life. Using a base of the actual pages from Moby Dick<\/em>, the artist superimposes drawings which seem to bring the text to life in a literal way.<\/p>\n As the title would suggest, Orson Welles plays a key role within the piece. As we continue to hear him speak, the artist also gives us a few bits from Orson\u2019s films like Citizen Kane<\/em> and F for Fake<\/em>, as well as, the drawn word \u201cRosebud.\u201d I would like to think that the artist gives tribute to Orson through these bits considering I perceived most of them to be random.<\/p>\n \n Evocative meaning:<\/p>\n Immediately, I gathered the supreme idea of creation by witnessing forms of media, such as text, film, music, drawing, and spoken word, all combined to form a new type of media. This work serves as a good introduction to \u201cnew media\u201d by blatantly utilizing many media forms and transcending the ordinary and sometimes bland way we receive art and\/or media. This meaning seems totally isolated from the specific subject material (like Moby Dick)<\/em>, yet still uses it to showcase the total freedom of creation within all forms of media.<\/p>\n By giving us pieces from a variety of media sources which are all related in some way, the viewer can extract his\/her own meaning based upon the context in which they watched the piece. For me, it seemed as if the piece was suggesting the all forms of art created by anyone anytime are all the same. By that I mean all art is related regardless of how it is categorized or perceived. It suggests that boundaries cannot exist within art and because of that, all art flows together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Blog #1, \u201cOrson Whales\u201d Tim Hubbard Representational meaning: As I watched the work for a second time, the representational meanings seemed to become clearer, even without a large contextual base of knowledge about \u201cMoby Dick.\u201d Of course there are elements from Moby Dick which can be seen and understood as representational meanings within the piece, … Continue reading Blog #1, \u201cOrson Whales\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[10,16,12,11],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-evocative","tag-film","tag-meaning","tag-representational"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}