Week TWELVE

Chapter 7- The Six Steps

Art is so much broader than people think. I like the way McCloud describes art.

"ART, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn't grow out of either of our species two basic instincts: survival and reproduction!"

As I thought about it, I relised he is right! It's not everyday you think about these things, but it really does make sense. All humans wanna do is survive and reproduce. However, what do we do when we are not thinking about how to stay alive and make love? (haha) ALOT of the time, we are producing art. This reminds me of Year 12 doing TEE art an having so many people ask, "so what do you do in the art exam anyways? draw a picture and hand it in?". Umm.. no... there is alot more to art than you think. Art can be as hidden as someone listening to his ipod on the train, or tapping even tapping his foot, to being as obvious as a guy drawing on a train.

The six steps is an interesting new piece of knowledge. The sixth step is the 'surface' an where McCloud believes is the one people most appreciate easily, and is the latest 'fan favourite' even though the Ideas (step 1) and idioms (step 3) were thought up long before but never with established 'surfaces'. This reminds me of work that is inspired from someone else and made better. Obviously the credit is given to the latter, which is fair, but that original thought which made that piece great, was because of the idea which was thought up by someone else.