John Berger Essay- Ways of Seeing

While in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, I traveled by the different g wholeeries and their various cultures; discovering all sorts of humanities from Contemporary nontextual matter, to American artwork, Japanese art, and even the Egyptian art where I could appreciate the complexity of mummies. Throughout all these several(a) cultures of art, I was passing myself and started to wonder how I could understand art beyond others opinion about them. Moreover, I realized that it was a question John Berger, critic of art and author of the Ways of Seeing, embossed in his essay, and it is a question that will always be raised while demanding how to understand a certain art. Walking through a room where various French artisans had their mental pictures exposed, I deteriorate in front of the artwork (see above) painted by capital of Minnesota Gauguin. I did not choose a French artist to make me remember the French culture that I am missing here in Boston, nor to pretend that the French are move in art, but a way to analyze and understand, with the fix of a famous art critic, an artwork from an artist who surprise me in my previous art classes. Doù venons-nous, Qui sommes-nous, Où allons-nous? By Paul Gauguin I chose a painting that had a tippy expression, and complex story emanating from it.

As the title of my essay indicates, the title of the painting translated in English is Where are we from? Who are we? Where are we freeing? So many questions in the title and the painting, but there were as much coming through my mind while examine this image. This artwork is very ambiguous because I do not have intercourse how to start looking at it. I can watch over people appearing half naked in the foreground, but we cannot unfeignedly tell why they appear there. The statue in the back makes the questioning to a greater extent obscure. It seems like an Oracle that gives people their destiny, and that is maybe why they all look so sad. Truly, I felt that this image was a representation of my origin country, West Indies, by the color... If you want to find out a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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