The Reading Ways Of Seeing By John Berger And Banking...

Throughout the first couple weeks of school, I have read and reflected on some readings and fragments that have led my train of thought develop analytical ideas. Although, one universal idea was brought to my attention, which is the concept of perspective. Around the globe, perspectives have been and are being shaped by influences in both hand sides simultaneously. Viewpoints are established and changed in both ways in the two reading Ways of Seeing by John Berger and Banking Concepts of Education by Paulo Freire. While the first half of Ways of Seeing consists of possible positive aspects of the worlds perspective, the second half consists of the negative effects that the influences of the world have on perspectives. Also, Banking†¦show more content†¦One can notice that as the paintings of her have evolved, Mary becomes more and more seductive. Her clothes are depicted more informal and loose and she is even topless in the last two images. This shows how man has changed th eir point of view about women to a sexual perspective. It demonstrates how man changed the meaning of art to benefit themselves by pleasing their own sexual desires. This can also be seen in other painting techniques such as oil paintings. Since oil paintings utilizes advance techniques, they could show more depth and details in what they portrayed. Those who were identified as wealthy had the ease to take control over the breakthrough of art by inputting textures to an object such as clothes to make them seem luxurious. The same could be seen in landscape drawings/ paintings. Berger goes on to state that before artists’ interests in ecology for envious purposes, â€Å"nature was not thought of as the object of the activities of capitalism; rather it was thought of as the arena in which capitalism and social life and each individual life had its being†, as humans used and enjoyed the beauty of nature and its landscapes for what it is. Another example can be found on pa ge 106 where Berger shows a picture of a couple, the Andrew’s, sitting on a bench in front of a beautiful landscape. Berger goes on to say that â€Å"the point being made is that, among the pleasures their portrait gave to Mr. and Mrs. Andrews,