Shepherd Fairy

1. What is your emotional response upon entering the exhibit? Please explain.

I did not have any overpowering emotional response that I can remember. Nothing about my emotions towards the paintings really stuck out to me when I thought about it afterward. What did stick out to me was not necessarily an emotion of any kind but a potent feeling of curiosity at the meaning of the paintings and an overwhelming desire to decipher them. the paintings quit honestly had more of an effect on the mind than the soul.

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

Once again it was not really an emotion I felt when I left the exhibit but something more of the mind. When I left I felt I had a sort of understanding of Fairy”s paintings and other works and that I had discovered what their meaning and their purpose was.

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

Though I did not really feel any kind of emotion like happiness, sadness, or anger when I saw the exhibit I still believe emotions like these would very strongly interact with reason, sense, perception, and language. This is because I believe emotion is powerful enough to be very influential on these other aspects of gaining knowledge which we use just as frequently.

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

Someone from a non-Western country might respond very differently to this exhibit than Americans. They might not understand it quit as much because the exhibit seems to focus around some of the major issues in America like the ethical issues with advertisement and government campaigns. A foreigner might not understand these issues s well because their country could be facing different types of issues and they have not experienced these issues first hand in America.

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

Though emotion does not have to play a role in allowing a person to appreciate the arts it can contribute greatly to helping someone appreciate them. if someone does not understand a work of art they can still appreciate the emotion it stirs inside them and the reaction it gets out of them because they can appreciate that it had such an influential effect on them.