Aesthetics

Currently in my media and society class we are discussing the idea of media criticism, which ironically matches up with a different kind of criticism I am learning about in my fine arts class as well. It's the idea of aesthetics. Aesthetics can best be described by telling you how art critics do things. They have this analogy in art that is simply put OOOO. As weird as that may seem look at the OOOO's after I explain this and it will make sense I promise. Ok so the analogy of the OOOO is basically the idea that the artist is only responsible for half of the interpretation of the piece. The viewer is also responsible to meet the artist half way in a sense and together they form the idea of aesthetics, the completed Interpretation. This same idea works with the area of television specifically. As the viewer we are responsible for our own personal interpretation to the content we are viewing. The producer of the content is responsible for the meaning they are to convey. The hardest part about this theory is that it is unpredictable and often can lead to the audience becoming offended. Since we all have different personalities and minds that think in a whole bunch of unique ways interpretation that is intended can be missed and interpreted differently by the person it was intended for. If that was confusing look again at the OOOO model I gave at the beginning again. If you see the fact that there are no spaces in between the letters. That is because it is a cycle. Artist, interpretation, view interpretation. Make sense? I hope so but to help make the point here is a popular art piece that exemplifies this.