Jamie Higgins

ART 133
9/21/17

Visual vulture is concerned with visual events in which information, meaning, or

pleasure is sought by the consumer in an interface with visual technology.(Hurwitz &

Day p. 76). Hurwitz and Day the writers of, Children and their art: Methods for the

elementary school, express visual culture and contemporary applied arts. Visual

Culture is what we see in our everyday life, or even things we see but do not pay

attention to. In this reading the big idea is the different approaches to visual culture in art

education including, radical change, applied, and comprehensive art education. Reading

about how the different aged students broke down the meaning of certain pictures to

create meaning and understanding was very interesting. The big idea behind what Gude

expresses through her works of Postmodern Principles, is the different types of art that

can be used, for example, Appropriation, Juxtaposition, Recontextualization, Layering,

Hybridity, Gazing and Representin. All of these types of art making are very different

but all express strong meanings.

I would love to be able to adapt all of these types of art from these two articles. It

is interesting to see what students come up with when trying to observe and make

meaning of certain works, and also coming up with their own ideas and meanings of their

own work. When we had to create our own piece of work representing power, I think I

had a great understanding of what I needed to do in order to express power using

different materials. I would like to teach my students art making that has an effect on

themselves and the people who view it. My piece that I made in class on Tuesday showed

visual culture and one of Gudes principals, recontextualization, to show how a baby who

should be acting and thinking like a baby, but it is thinking about social media and what it

needs to look like, by having big lips and already wearing a bra. The connotation behind
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this artwork was to represent how in everyday life young kids are growing up too fast and

how the use of social media is so powerful and used constantly throughout ones day.

References

Gude, O. (2004). Postmodern principles: In search of a 21st century art education. Art
Education,
57(1), 6-14.

Hurwitz, A., & Day, M. (2007). Children and their art: Methods for the elementary
school, (8th
ed.). Thompson Wadsworth