ART BLOG: The Tumbling Woman

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The intention of the artist who created this sculpture was to illustrate the horrible flight of the 9/11 victims. The artist, Eric Fischl said that his work was a sincere artistic attempt to put out his feelings and be able to share them.
Even though it is considered controversial, the quality of the work of art is very good. It requires enormous skill to create a life-size sculpture of a human. The position in which it is laid is very original and difficult to make.
The response of the audience was very negative. It evoked much controversy since the viewers were vividly reminded of people falling from the World Trade Center. It was seen with much anger and anxiety.
The sculpture is trying to imitate the feelings that people felt on 9/11. The feelings of sadness, and the shocking reality of what happened. It communicates to the viewers what the artist feels towards the matter, and how he tries to express this feeling. It educates people on the biggest act of terrorism on human society as well as how people mourned and suffered for this catastrophe.
http://quazen.com/arts/visual-arts/the-tumbling-woman-and-other-most-disturbing-classical-works-of-art/

The Stroop Effect

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The Stroop effect is a psychological experiment conducted by John Ridley Stroop. The goal of this experiment was to expand human knowledge on the capacity of a person performing two tasks at the same time and the effects it had. Psychologists wanted to prove how conducting two tasks simultaneously had a negative impact on the outcome.

In order to prove this theory, Stroop created several variations of the same test in which three different kinds of stimuli were created. In the first one, names of colors appeared in black ink. In the second, names of colors appeared in a different ink than the color named. Finally in the third one, there were squares of a given color. He would then time the participants while they read the different stimuli. For the first one they had to say the name written, in the second they had to say the color that the name was written in, and for the third stimuli they had to say the color of the square. With this experiment, Stroop’s theory was accepted.

The outcome did prove how humans were not as efficient in performing a task while they were also trying to do a different one. This was seen when the participants read the second stimuli. They had trouble saying the colors, because they were in words. This experiment also explains why it is dangerous to talk on the phone while driving or why some people cannot read while listening to music. Through this experiment psychologists gained a better understanding on humans multitasking.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroop_effect

Capital Punishment

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Capital punishment in the United Kingdom was prohibited in the twentieth century.

Death penalty in China is currently applied for a variety of crimes, but the majority of executions are for cases of either murder or large scale of drug trafficking.

Capital punishment is legal in Japan. Japan, the majority of the United States, and South Korea are the only three industrialized democracies that conserve the death penalty.

In my opinion taking away someone’s life is violating basic human rights, which I believe is unethical. No matter what the person might have done, death is not a proper punishment. There have been cases in which someone has been proven innocent after they have been killed for a crime that they did not commit. These are the kind of horrible mistakes that can be done with capital punishment, therefore I am completely against it.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Japan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_United_Kingdom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China