History as Perspective
Another key factor in presenting history is to identify
perspective. A fun practice is to study world scenes from different artists in
different centuries and note what they highlighted in their subjects and what
they kept muted. How did they interpret the moment they wanted to share? What
kind of statements might they have
been making?
Click to the following links of two paintings in Wikipedia
and resist reading all the background until after you’ve read the visual for
yourself, and answered the following questions for each scene.
Describing a scene. (Interpretation)
1.
What are some possibilities for organizing and
discussing this visual text in Hogarth’s Street Scene?
kinds of facial expressions, noise-sound-music, theme of poverty,
people at once crowed and isolated, social-class divisions, religious and other
symbols, modes of amusement.
2. What assumptions can we make about this ‘world’ based on this moment in
time?
Share: What is your emotional impression
of one scene?
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