One solid piece of feedback was that I put in a fact about the Robert E Lee statue that was removed in New Orleans. The feedback was that the statue was removed so it was erased and that goes against what Kaphar was talking about. I can change this in my paper by either adding a different example of statues being amended or I can say what the benefit would have been if we kept the statue and added something…
Art, it has many forms and with those different forms they have many different connections to certain people. There is music, paintings,books, movies and so much more. All these different types of art can bring out emotional responses from people and they have many meanings. Have you ever read a book or listened to music and couldn’t help but smile or even cry? Art can bring out the good in people or it can represent our history. There is so…
The TED Talk that I chose was the one about Titus and how he wants to bring the people that weren’t talked about in history like the young black boys in paintings and let them shine. Titus talks about wanting to amend our past because if we erase it, we won’t be making progress or anything. There are limits to what he is talking about in his talk because there are still people that are stuck with the ideas from…
“How Art Changes Us” Titus Kaphar Hook: The personal story about him and his kids going to the museum Inquiring Entry: Is there a way for us to amend our public sculptures not erase them? Claims: -Confront our past not erase it. -Art history class and the section on African Americans in painting. -African Americans are always pushed back and in the shadows. -Make new monuments next to old ones to create new stories. -There is…
