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“Photography – is it an art form or a form of mass communication?”- есе /persuasive essay/
It seems to me that the only right answer to this question would be very simple. You just have to change the preposition "or” for "and”. Photography is both an art form and a form of mass communication. I’ve also been trying to find any form of art that can’t be considered as a form of communication. No, it is not possible to do that because any kind of art presupposes transmitting some information. The only difference between all forms of art is the way they use to encode this information. Music employs sound coding, painting uses visual images for representing its main ideas, and cinema nowadays takes advantage of the whole number of means of data transfer. Photography also makes use of visual images but it combines the features of both cinema and painting. So it is not hard to make a conclusion that there is no art without communication as there is no art without idea, that is information. Of course, many people can say that communication does not imply art. That is quite right, and I won’t be surprised if I hear that photography can’t be regarded as a form of art. But let’s check up the meaning of the word "art” in the dictionary. Art is the conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium. Art is also the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance. Isn’t that true if we apply these definitions to photography? I suppose it is doubtless that photos can be beautiful; they sometimes compel our attention even more than paintings by great artists. So photography is an independent art form which pursues communicative aims. The only question that is left for us is how we can define whether this or that photo has any right to be called a piece of art.
Категория: Английски език | Добавено от: gemi (2010-12-13) | Автор: ученици W
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