This week reading focuses on how a viewer interprets meanings. Mainly what I got from the reading is that depending on the viewers upbringings, their codes and conventions will vary how things are interpreted by them. While the producer of images and other work of art might have a specific objective of meaning in mind when they created their master piece, the viewer might not always view what the artist made with the same interpretation in mind. Some might even hate what is being viewed depending on what taste the person has, meaning what they like in film, art, food, and many other things. Tastes vary person to person because depending on their social class the viewer could have been raised to like different things. For example, high class people might be use to high quality food, entertainment, and activities while a low class would be use to average food as well as TV shows and movies and regular sports. An average person cannot afford to do figure skating or horseback riding or even sailing and gliding because that is of expensive taste in activities.
Maybe this is why the value in art may seen outstanding to certain classes since ownership is key to the value of the art. For example the blue painting with white line (by Barnett Newman) was sold for about $44 million and maybe someone of a higher class statues viewed the art as exquisite but to an average joe, like me, would probably say "why the heck would you spend so much on an art that you could draw yourself."
The Painting that was sold for $44 Million
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