Monday, February 28, 2011

Analysis # 2 (Word Picture & Structuralism)



            Picasso has his own way of expressing Art. Art with so many vibrate colors and art that stand out to the human eye. The above painting captured my attention because of the vibrate colors and the weeping woman’s facial expression. She looks as though she be tortured and discriminated in a courtroom. Her face expresses pain and anguish as though she has no one in the world to talk too. She’s grinding her teeth while trying to close her mouth with her hand as though she has so much to hide. Her hair is let loose and straight as this is the only thing that may be free and not tided up. We see so much pain in her eyes as its like shattered glass and the way her eyebrows are structured. In my opinion her tears portray longing and the need for love. As the website I got this portrait from says “she is a victim of the rape of her sole.” It’s an amazing painting over all.
          What more is self conscious then “art”? Picassos painting reflects art and subconscious. It allows one to feel what it sees. One does not have to know that background of the painting nor information about the artist to feel the art work. “Art is a product of human activity” (pg. 547) Art expresses the artist but we do not appreciate the art unless who no who drew it. Picassos painting have got so many viewers because it is he who drew them. But regardless of the artist, I still think his paintings are awesome and fascinating



           Structuralism is the analysis of language, culture and society. Structuralism “is the social side of speech, outside the individual who can never create nor modify it by himself.” Pg 850. In order for one to understand what it means, you have to think of the simple concept of structure and how our words and languages form. According to Marxist, these structures and there structuralist models exist only in human mind, and not in nature. Structuralists claim that in order to understand the surface structure one has to understand the deep structure, and how it influences the surface structure. Saussure’s concept of the phoneme and his idea that phonemes exist in two kinds of relationships, the diachronic and synchronic was really helpful in understanding the concept of structuralism.  Linguistics is used in every word and every language. It’s important to understand the importance of linguistics. Linguistics is the study of language form, of language meaning, and of language in context. Once you grasp this concept, you’re able to structuralize culture and its language. Structuralism argues that a specific domain of culture may be understood by means of a structure. “In language there are only differences without positive terms.” Linguistics helps us understand those differences. However let’s not forget syntagmatic which means “in a language-state everything is based on relation.” Syntagmatic “relation is in the present” which means it helps us understand what’s going on in the linguistics.  



Work Cited

Saussure, Ferdinand De. "Course in General Linguistics". ed. Leitch, Vincent B. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. 2nd ed. New York: W. W. Norton &, 2010. Print.


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