Weekly Blog

The painting "The Wanderer" forced me to really think about how and why painters decide on designing their pieces. In class we talked about questions that could come up just by looking at the painting. Questions such as, "where is he going?", "what is he looking for?", or "what is the painter's purpose for placing him at that spot?".  These questions made me wonder if it was the painter's intention for these questions to come up or if he only intended for one reaction. This made me come to the realization that authors and writers do the same thing. They spend hours and hours thinking of the perfect way to write something so that they're soul intention or message can be recieved by the reader. But, in most all cases, there is more than one reaction to a painting or piece of literature.