Wysocki

Before You Read.

I really like this add. It really makes you think about what is going on. I feel that it is saying that sending a letter is way more personal and can really make a difference in someones life. I want to write a letter right now to someone!

Summary.

In Wysocki's article, "The Sticky Embrace of Beauty", she first talks about an article that is "lovely" but she isn't too happy with it and doesn't like it. She is upset because there is a picture of a woman and she is very sexual. She thinks that women can only be seen as sexual objects. Then she goes into talking about how artwork is seen by people and then finally explains why she is so angry. She basically just doesn't want society to judge women. Overall, she is writing about how to look at certain visuals.

Synthesis.

I think that McCloud can be related to this article because they both talked about how visuals can be a key point in writing and in a lot of things. A second person that can be related to this is Berger. Berger talked about women and so did Wysocki. A third person this can be related to is Kantz. Both Kantz and Wysocki talked about rhetoric in writing.

Response	Quotation
This was funny because she liked the advertisement but it made her mad. Why did it maker her mad?	“I think this advertisement is a lovely piece of work, but it also angers me” (79).
Again, this was funny because it is so true; that you can look at something and you can have many different emotions about it.	“When I experience pleasure and offense so mixed, I know I have a good opening into critical work- no matter where it leads me or how strange” (80).
This is just talking about women in general; how they are only looked at for eye candy and all and nothing else by society.	“We are not encouraged to ask about the woman in the ad as a woman, only as a shape” (83).
This was cool to me because when you find something beautiful, you really like it and take interest in it.	“When we judge something to be beautiful, it is because beauty is formally inherent in the object” (90).
She was angry because of the point of the advertisement that was shown. She did not like that the women were being shown like that.	“And the anger that I feel, the anger I have been trying to understand since first seeing the layout, is inseparable from the pleasures I have been describing” (93).

AE.

Personally, I think artwork is up for interpretation because there are so many different ways that people view artwork. So many things can help people decide whether or not they like the art or not, but bottom line, it comes down to the person that you are. It can look like one thing, but mean something totally different.

Thoughts.

This article was boring to me. The more I read it, the less interested I became in it. I understood what she was trying to say, but it was not something that I would read again.