Wysocki Reading Response

Before You Read 

 

1. I like this ad because the women looks happy and in love during Christmas time, I do not like the cigarettes though.

Summary

Wysocki starts in her article "The Sticky Embrace of Beauty"with a piece of work that is "lovely" but "angers" her. The picture is of a woman, it is see as sexual. This is what angers her. People can only see the woman as a sexual object. She then explains artwork and why certain parts of artwork are looked at more. She lastly explains why she was angry. Wysocki does not want society to judge women or others. She is writing this article to art/media students and people that want to learn about visuals.

Synthesis

 Wysocki's article, "The Sticky Embrace of Beauty," relates to McCloud, Bernhardt, and Berger. She relates to McCloud because they both described the importance visuals can have on writing. She relates to Bernhardt because Bernhardt expresses how important it is to have visuals and show emphasis in/on text. Wysocky uses both pictures and highlights important sentences within her text. She relates to Berger because he also looks at women in art and how society looks at them as sexual objects.

Thoughts

 I thought this article showed good points. I like looking at the way society looks at things and I also like art. I liked how she explained how to analyze artworks. I also found this article interesting because I had never thought about looking at ads the way she did. Other than that I found the article pretty dry.

Question

AE 1. I believe one artwork is up for view because artwork is a conversational item while talking about interpretation. I have felt different than my peers on a piece of art before. I think it is normal to respond to things like art differently though. Everyone has different interpretations.

Dialectical Notebook

Response	Quotation
I like this quote because it made me think about the picture before I actually read about it.	“I think this advertisement is a lovely piece of work, but it also angers me” (79).
I agree with this statement because media (magazine ads) spread information to a large, wide arrangement of people.	“Graphic design, becoming a profession in this setting, gets shaped to be an efficient process for disseminating entwined information and desire” (81).
I like that she highlighted this quote because it a great definition of form that goes along with the paragraph.	“Form is itself always a set of structuring principles, with different forms growing out of and reproducing different but specific values” (87).
This quote explains why we disregard and regard different things. I don’t think we should make things “not worthy.”	“But such disregard is never neutral; when we wish to indicate that something is not worthy of regard; when we diss what we regard, we make it so by making it not worthy of our sights” (91).
I agree with her, I like looking at the Peek first and studying it.	“I find pleasure in the Peek layout precisely because it is all abstracted, perfected, pulled out of the day-to-day, formalized” (93).