OBEY

1. What is your emotional response upon entering the exhibit? Please explain.
My emotional response upon entering the exhibit was intrigued. I didnt really know much about the whole OBEY thing and i was extremly curious. The only artwork i had really seen from him was the Obama add and the famous OBEY poster. Right away looking at the first few art pieces when walking in i was blown away by thier compelxity, then even more amazed when i got closer and saw the more intense detail. Each poster brought a differnet emotion. There was some that brought sadness, pity, and even laughter. When reading about his ideas to create propaganda just to make people think, the posters seemed to create even more of a emotional responce. It created more curiosity for what he was trying to convey with these posters. Some posters even brought a feeling of shame, like the ones that were insulting America and the world. It almost made me shamefull and upset that I am apart of what he is trying to convey.

2. What is your emotional response upon leaving the exhibit? Please explain.

My emotional responce upon leaving the exhibit was intense. I was extremly intrigued by what i saw, and it made me think alot more about the war and the propaganda in our society. The last room left me blown away and speechless. threre was so much detail and so much meaning all around that my eyes could not stay focoused on one area for to long with out moving onto the next with intense curioisity. I felt like the exhibit was also set up to further enhance this sense of confusion and curiosity, with all of the different rooms, it was almost maze like.

3. Does emotion interact with reason, sense, perception and language for you in this exhibit? If so, how?

Yes emotion does deffinatly interact with reason, sense, perception and language in this exhibit. His artwork was designed to envoke an emotional responce from the viewers and have them question the society around them. He purposly manipulated language in some of his works to portray a meaning of stupidty. He also had newspaper clippings that were embedded in the back of the art work to help enhance whatever messsage or emotion he was trying to convey in that piece. The different colors and images greatly targeted your perception of how you viewed the exhibit, and helped to enhance the emotions he was trying to convey.

4. Is this an American culture exhibit? How might someone from a non-Western country respond to this exhibit? Why?

I felt that this is deffinatly an Amercian culture. First of all it deffinatly shows freedom of speech that may not be allowed in other countries, it directly insults President Bush, the war, and calls America stupid. A non-Western country might be bothered by the amount contraversy presented in these images. They also might be upset by the images of asian children holding guns.

5. Can one appreciate theatre, music and art using only the rational mind or must Emotion play a role? Explain.

I do not think it is possible at all to enjoy any type of art with out emotion. All art is created with the intention of capturing some type of emotion, or trying to inflict it on the viewer. I feel that if you are to look at art with only a rational mind, it just wouldnt work. Even looking at a piece of art and trying to analyze it, you can not do so succesfully without being able to interpret and feel the emotions that are being portrayed with in it.