Visual Arts Analysis

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Part 1
The first thing that came to mind when I looked at the piece of art was that I was scared. Somehow, I felt like the piece was projecting itself to me. I felt like the focus was on me and that I was under a microscope. My first reaction was that people were staring at me or trying to find out things about me. The piece made me a subject at first. I was at the center of the piece before I could detach and start dissecting it. The connection this piece makes with my life is that it captures the very essence of living. In my life, I am at the focus or where the attention is. In the same way that the piece made me the focus or center, I am the center of my life. Everything that happens around me and what I affect in my life is because of my being at the center. By having the image make me the center, it felt as though I had an audience in my most innate or personal self. So, I found the mood of the piece disturbing and creepy as it appears to infringe on my space.
From the name of the artwork to what it invokes in me, I believe that the artist did a good job in delivering the message that life is a theater. The use of the different shades of color blue as the artwork showcases arms growing to the outside mimics the different ways I or anyone else tries to expand or grow their sphere of influence over their life. In a theater, there are many performances, and this artwork mimics the scary approach of taking on life without any blueprint. With the many performances and directions, life keeps evolving and happening as people ponder and take on whatever it is that happens to unfold.
Part 2
This piece titled ‘How Time Flies’ is as intriguing as it is accurate. The contents of the piece happen to gel and communicate an intricate yet obvious message of life. The piece of art showcases two subjects looking on as life and time unfolds. The only part they get to play is that they are in the scene, but their influence on time and how it flows is limited, and theirs is simply to spectate.
One strength of this piece is how it captures time and the helplessness of humanity against time. In the piece, time is showcased through images that depict the subjects in different stages of life, and how time has changed and made each evolve. The use of images in the piece helps to enhance the story it seeks to communicate. The images themselves tell and capture the story of time quite accurately. Also, the use of a bird in the ascending position also helps to capture the essence of time as was intended. The aesthetic quality of how the attribute of time has been captured and communicated is indeed quite accurate and helps to enhance the artwork.
The other strength of this piece lies in its inclusion of humanity’s helplessness as time flies. Against time, humanity can only be a spectator and the artwork happens to capture this perfectly with the subjects of the artwork being spectators. The su...