Monday, 18 May 2009
ee again
My sister was telling me the other day about her trip to Pompei with her class and was talking about the paintings on the walls which still remain today, and so I had a new idea for an EE: visiting archaeological sites and old churches, to investigate and discover how the deterioration of paintings may affect the perception one has of the work of art. By doing this kind of research, I must visit different places and write many notes, therefore, I thought it could have been a good idea for an EE. Today, after lunch, we have a double session on working on our EE and therefore I should start writing and researching about an idea already.
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That sounds interesting, but might end up as a psychology essay - 'how does weathering and age affect our perception of artworks?'
ReplyDeleteHave you ever been to the Archaeolgical museum in Athens? I saw some statues there repainted in their original bright colours - today we normally only see the bleached marble, but a lot of it used to be very lurid.
It certainly seems original - you might interview people as well. We'd need to make sure that it was stil a Visual Arts essay though.
You could also look at how people respond to restored paintings (like the sistine chapel)