my favorite lecture

My favorite lecture attended thus far was the Photography lecture. Before then I had no idea how much photography influenced painting when the first cameras were developed. I learned that when photography came into play it made painting obsolete. Now that painting was obsolete it had to re-invent itself as an art form. Painting went from capturing reality and biblical stories, to capturing things that could not exist in the physical world. I find that absolutely amazing! It makes so much sense, I just never put it together myself before.

At the start of the lecture we were told that before language we communicated with pictures. This made me think of all the flaws of a society without language. I can’t even begin to imagine how my though process would work If I wasn’t constantly narrating it with words. How did one think out their actions before language? An animal is running after you and you have two options: One, stop and take out your knife, or two, keep running. How would one go about deciding which one to do without words flowing through your mind? Would you just pick one? Was life really that spastic? That random? Those are the things I think about with a life without language. If people are starting to evolve to be more visual and less lingual, that’s a horrible thing. We need a balance of the two. For each artist we need lawyer, each musician a mathematician. Without a balance the world would be boring and everyone would punch each other in the face over misunderstandings.