Wysocki Response

• Do 1 "Before you Read" exercise
• Looked up Frankenstein
• Summarize
• In her article "The sticky embrace of beauty", Anne Francis Wysocki talks about the way that advertisement and the way that the human form are used to promote several different types of responses. She talks about how the female form is not always used in a sexual or explicit way, but rather a maternal, nurturing way to remind us of our mothers, since that is our first memory. She explains that when the woman's form is used in the sexual or explicit form is when problems arise and men and other women become violent in nature and misuse the art form.
• Synthesize
• I saw many different connections in this article, the first is clearly with Berger, who in his article  talks about the female form and the usage. He also talks about how females are very self aware and Wysocki also mentions this. I also connected it to McCloud, who discusses how images and pictures are a good way to get one's point across and also persuade. Also McCloud brings up the "mask" which can be consistent with photo shop and also just model selection, which Wysocki talks about in how the body is seen with out imperfections and the articles of clothing are like paper doll clothes, placed on at random. I also assoicated Wysocki's article with Kantz's article with the Rhetorical Triangle. In Wysocki's article it is an arch and mentions the connection between concept and sensation. This is similar to Kantz's with the connections between the author, audience, topic, ect. (insert any ideas into the triangle and its connectors). 
• Dialectical notebook (include at least 5 quotations, typed out in fll)

• 	This example states that it is natural for people, both male and female to be drawn to the woman's body shape. It is a simple and easy advertisment ploy and does not have sexual prefrences or hidden meaning.	"That is, with Kant, we are to understand our bodily responses and tastes as being the same as everyone else's because the categories we use for creating understanding out of sensation." page 95
  She explains in a similar way to Berger that women are objectified in pictures to be explicit and sexual as a means to sell products and make revenue for companies.	"It is easy to articulate a particular and well-known kind of anger about the Peek layout, about the layout being just one more in the endless piled of painted, photographed, and drawn representations of women shown as only sexual and now used for selling, so that we all- men and women- are pushed to see women only as sexual objects, as objects serving as means to the ends of others." page 93
  This ties together with her little chart that is similar to the Rhetorical Triangle, yet Wysocki's example is an arch.	"Aesthetic judgement is thus the awareness of a harmonious and interpenetrating relation between the parts of Kant's analysis, between the necessity of nature and the freedom of reason." page 89
  This quote is alittle creepy to me, I feel that it may be true because the first memory that most people have is of their mother. But I feel that our attention should not be drawn to that of a naked woman's body in memory of our mother.	"Another response to the possibility that we are meant to see this woman as alone with her thoughts comes from Bang, from her suggestion that I have the pleasure I do in seeing the curves of this woman's body because they are a sweet memory of maternal security and comfort." page 85
  This explains why we look where we do at the article. This has to do with the point of reference, which is an art term.	"It is because of this contrast: this is the lightest thing in the design and the only large rounded shape." page 80

• AE 1 1.      Why do you think that one artwork is up for interpretation? Have you felt differently than your peers or the general consensus about a piece of art? Elaborate on your thoughts.
• Art work can be seen many different ways. Its mostly based on the reaction or response of the viewer. But much like in Berger's article he mentions that the artist is not the viewer but rather the owner is. So therefore art is responded to differently  by all people. Not only that but also intertextuality could play a factor in the way a piece is viewed. How does it relate to the viewer? Have they experienced a similar action? What is happening in the piece do they know what is going on?
• Your thoughts (go as in depth as you can)
• My thoughts on this article were that I felt like i was reading a very extended synthesis. I understood what she was trying to explain about the advertisement but I feel that she compared and contrasted and quoted too many different sources that I became bored and uninterested. I was drawn in by her opening statement and the example of the picture, as I am sure most readers are, but I feel that I would have not only paid more attention and retained more information, but rather I would have enjoyed the piece better had it not been so repetitive with the synthesis theme. This article reminded me a lot of Berger's and McCloud's with the topic and also the examples to placement and usage.