Sunday, March 13, 2011

Opinion of Video

Two mondays ago, we watched a video in class that explained the lawsuit between a young girl whose photo was shown without her consent in a cell phone ad that was widely displayed. As the young girl and her family argued that it wasn't right to display the photograph without her consent, the cell phone company brought up the risk of the internet. I agree with the girl and her family. If my face is going to be plastered all over town, I want a say in what the picture looks like, where it is being shown and how much I would get paid for it. I definitely think the girl should have been paid, because in that case, she potentially could have been a large part of their sales revenue. Also, the girl was religious, and the ad was not exactly G rated. Although it was not offensive, it almost had a sexual air about it, since the cell phone company was Virgin Mobile. That being said, I think that if any company wants to use a picture that someone else has ownership over, the right thing to do is to ask permission of that person, because they have every right to their own privacy.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

PMA Week 6

This week, our assignment was to go back to the Philadelphia Museum of Art and find a piece to do ten sketches on. Since I couldn't make it to the PMA last week, I made sure I found time to go this week. My Tuesday 3D class was canceled because of the 3D Olympics so Tuesday was wide open for me. I took a day trip by myself to the PMA which at first I was a little worried about because I wasn't sure how to get there via subway. But it was a nice afternoon, and though a lot of walking was required from City Hall to the PMA, it was all worth it.

Once I got there, I ventured into the European galleries, that held many works by Mone and Renoir in particular. One piece jumped out at me though, especially, mainly because of its size and color choice. The piece is called "The Large Bathers" (1884-1887). The sculptural rendering of the figures against a sparkling background and the careful application of dry paint reflect the tradition of seventeenth and eighteenth century French painting. Renoir labored over this work for three years, making numerous preparatory drawings for individual figures and at least two full-scale multifigure drawings. Faced with criticism of his new style after completing The Large Bathers, an exhausted Renoir never again devoted such painstaking effort to a single work.