Hw Blog #1

Many people use art as a way to express themselves such as emotions and experiences. Although some people do not consider themselves artist but they still do enjoy art and keep them in their home or some simply enjoy seeing them while strolling around in the public. Look around, art is all around us! Where people can see the most art back to back is at a art museum, train station and even at parks. This painting right here is a painting that we keep in my house. This painting came from my country in the Dominican Republic that my father owned for 40 years plus. The painting was brought to the US when my father came to this country. Although this painting might not mean much to other people this painting records and commemorate, the purpose of this painting was for my father to sell painting like this one to earn money to get around. The emotion that the child expresses on the picture is very sad as you can see tears rolling down the cheeks, giving us tangible form to feelings and ideas. What I believe the artist was to trying to make out of this painting was to construct meaningful images and forms by painting a child crying who is upset at something, maybe crying for help, loneliness or even simply because his feelings were hurt. The artist did a successful job trying to express the emotion of this child, by us just taking one look at this painting we can already start to wonder and built stories of why might this child be feeling upset or this could even be the way the artist was feeling as a child.