Blog 3

The article “Big Ideas and Artmaking" From the article, I can understand what are the big ideas and big ideas are important for the professional artists on the working.  Also big ideas can help people to think more deeply. He talks from four subjects to describe big ideas and artmaking, for example, “Developing Big Idea”, “From big idea to artmaking”, “Subject matter or Big Idea”, “A unit of Study”, “Artist Talk” and “Same Big Idea; Different subject matter” Step by step to analyze Big ideas and Artmaking and attract people to learn it more deeply. The author uses a Bartlett example to analysis “Artists frequently transfer big ideas from one subject to another” such as rules and systems with different subjects.

One question about artmaking for student, It is difficult to understand what the meaning of “The big idea provides the conceptual ground for artmaking; the subject matter serves as the context for examining the big idea.”

Terry Barrett posts a picture which is a monster with lots of stuff, such as knife, gun and so on at the beginning of the article. It will attract me to think about what the article talking about? The article “Interpreting Visual Culture” discusses Dentations and Connotations in the art. He uses different picture to analysis, such as using these words to talk about a magazine cover which is the popular music group “Destiny’s Child” he uses art skills to narrate this picture which is on the cover of Rolling Stone, three women. He analyzes these three girls one by one through these girl’s clothes, linguistic message, and so on by using Dentations and Connotations.  I know what the meaning of these two words from the article “Denotations are what you literally see in a picture; connotations are what the things and words imply or suggest by what”

I cannot understand why the preschool children are able to use the denotations and connotations, because this article tries to use animal to answer this question.