Artifact 1: Values
Objectives:
- Understand the basic relationship between human values and art
- Be familiar with my personal values and make efforts on that
- Keep seeking my personal value
Reflections:
Photograph is one of my most important values in my life, because I spend a lot of my spare time on taking photos. I think arts are the thing which can pass the time and fill the emptiness of heart, and people can find human values from arts. I love talking pictures, because photograph taught me to find my human value and to know more about myself. For example, I find the beauty of everything by observing and taking photos, so talking pictures makes me to become a better person. Art has any kind of possible, because people who create art pieces have different values. Ellen mentioned “As aesthetic theory has developed, the number of apparently undeniable qualities or characteristics of art that have been suggested and must somehow be incorporated into any definition has become decidedly unwieldy, and today it is generally agreed that definitions of art, if one desires them at all, must be either injunctive or open-textured.” (P. 26) Basically, art could either reflect the side of beauty or the side of dark. This is what I have learnt from photograph, and my work usually directly reflects my thoughts and emotions.
I used to be a person without any creative ideas, but photograph help me develop the ability of creativity. At the beginning I started to study photograph, I had any sense of feeling so I just randomly take whatever I like. Gradually, I found that there are few pictures I shot was actually great. Therefore, I kept talking anything I like, and I was excited that I gradually have sense of creativity. At the same time, I realize that creativity is one of my important values as well, because creativity benefits me a lots. Creativity benefits to me, because it makes me think differently and enhances my competitiveness at college and in the work. Creativity tends to become a popular topic in these days, because it is also a great quality for the whole society. Now, even though I am still a person lack of creativity, I am trying to improve myself by talking pictures.
This picture I shot from Harvard University in my spring break.
In the Future:
I am becoming a better person because of my values, and I believe that my values will still not change in the future. What I want to improve is that to become more creative. I will keep talking pictures to discovery my ability of creativity, and I am going to read more art works as well.
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