Art and Fear

I'm really surprised that no one has yet to blog on our Art and Fear book, but that may be because very few people have actually read it. This book is probably the best thing I've had to read all semester—for this or any other class. It's written in such a way that makes you feel like the author is talking directly to you in your own situation. There is incredible insight to be found in the words of wisdom shared there.

Before coming to Huntington, I never really saw myself as an artist. Art has always been defined as something drawn, painted, carved/molded, etc. In reality, art is actually a form of self-expression, which can be shown in many different ways.

When people go to art galleries, they wouldn't be surprised to see photographs among paintings for example. In the same way, you would expect that people could easily see films as art. After all, a film is just a bunch of pictures, but with audio attached to it. Yet you hardly ever hear people talking about cinematography when they walk out of a movie theater—unless they were watching some nature documentary, or they're a film student.

This semester I've been able to see that there is an extremely wide scope to the things film can capture, making it every bit an art form which fits so well into the book. I still may think that animators will get more out of it, simply because it is more focused on the created art (by which I mean drawings, paintings, etc), rather than other forms like film, which require a slightly different technique. Nonetheless, I love the book, don't even think about not reading it