This week we read Amelia Jones, "Meaning, Identity, Embodiment: The Uses of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology in Art History," and within it Jones goes into talking about the relationship that is created with the viewers of art vs the creators. There is defiantly a connection between the viewer and what is being viewed same goes with the artist and what they created. All of it has or comes from different backgrounds giving it a different perspective. I view the American Gothic differently because I was raised in farm lands and this piece quite literally reminds me vary much of my neighbors when I was growing up. However the artist created it not to remind me of my childhood he created it to bring to life is own vision of this situation. As the relationship of how I see the work vs the artists is different so is the relationship of each individual as they see the work. Each individual brings in their own background as they see a piece and that shifts the way we see the everything. With That I feel as if we bring the same background and judgement to a returning artist. We will always view Edger Allen Poe's poetry and morbid and all about death because that is the stereotype connected to his work but not all of his work is like that. But because we know that he had a past were many of the people (women) he loved died to early this was defiantly something to influence his work. I feel as if many people come to art with scratched glasses, something for some reason scratched them and that is how you see, you see with the scratch. It will influence the way you see things but that the way it is and that is what you are used to. Everyone come to art with a different background and there for the piece hits people hard or not at all evokes different emotions in different people. Art is different to all because we all come from different.
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