Friday, October 27, 2006
Week #10 Reader Response
What is McCloud's idea of an iconic abstraction chart? Describe it.
Where do Maus and The 9/11 Report fit on this chart? Where would you place them?
In Chapter 7, McCloud discusses the "six steps". What are these six steps and how do they influence the creation of great art?
Where do Maus and The 9/11 Report fit on this chart? Where would you place them?
In Chapter 7, McCloud discusses the "six steps". What are these six steps and how do they influence the creation of great art?
// posted by Kate @ 10:30 PM 
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I think paul and dan actually think they can get away with crappy answers like that. NOT ON MY WATCH.
Ok, enough funny business -- EXPAND on what your classmates are saying. WHY do you agree with what Kathleen and Isaac are saying? Explain, don't just restate what they said.
funny business concluded.
McCloud's abstraction shart basically shows the stages of change from a detailed picture to a simplified cartoon to the written word. Somewhere in the middle is a general iconic picture that is supposed to relate to a greater audience.
In Maus, Spiegelman draws people as generic animals according to their race and affiliations. Jews as mice, Nazi's as cats and African Americans as black dogs. I assume he did this instead of drawing detailed images of people because it is alot less work and is supposed to help people relate. I honestly don't understand how this helps people relate but I like animals. Except orangutans but this is mostly because I recently watched a documentary on one particularly famous orangutan who assaulted Julia Roberts, which is simply unexceptable.
McCloud's six steps of creating artwork are - idea, form, idiom, structure, craft, and surface. With ideas like this how could this genius not be teaching at some kind of fancy art school? It really is sad that such profound genius will never find real work because he's a presumptious hack.
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McCloud's abstraction shart basically shows the stages of change from a detailed picture to a simplified cartoon to the written word. Somewhere in the middle is a general iconic picture that is supposed to relate to a greater audience.
In Maus, Spiegelman draws people as generic animals according to their race and affiliations. Jews as mice, Nazi's as cats and African Americans as black dogs. I assume he did this instead of drawing detailed images of people because it is alot less work and is supposed to help people relate. I honestly don't understand how this helps people relate but I like animals. Except orangutans but this is mostly because I recently watched a documentary on one particularly famous orangutan who assaulted Julia Roberts, which is simply unexceptable.
McCloud's six steps of creating artwork are - idea, form, idiom, structure, craft, and surface. With ideas like this how could this genius not be teaching at some kind of fancy art school? It really is sad that such profound genius will never find real work because he's a presumptious hack.
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