Blog #2 Artists

One point in particular in which I have found to be very interesting is that, by finding out about the artists intentions, history, or the artists reason for depicting a particular scene enables a piece of art work to have its own personality. In the Diary by Roger Shimomura his grandmother is writing in her diary during WWII while his mother and he are in the door way, keep in mind however that they are captive is a camp in Idaho where the door way in which Shimomura and his mother are standing in does not lead to freedom but to barbed wire fence. I think by knowing the story behing this particular piece of art enables me to appreciate the piece much more than I would have not knowing the story.