Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

I chose a picture of two individuals, a younger man and a younger lady, lying in bed kissing. They seem to have no clothes on and the blankets are pulled over them and their arms are wrapped around one another. While looking for a picture I noticed that a lot of his pictures were of people lying in bed or kissing. The purpose of this picture is to show a couple in bed together. It could be that he is trying to represent love. Maybe this painter had many partners in which is he got into bed with or maybe he just liked painting that setting in particular. The audience that this would attract is probably the younger generation of his time. In my opinion I think that this painting would attract younger women rather than men or older individuals. The genre of this work is obviously a painting.  I am not too sure what the author’s stance on this painting was. I know that he had several paintings of couples kissing or lying in bed so maybe he was promiscuous or maybe they were to represent him and his loved one. It could be that he longed for a woman in his life. It could mean several things.

Televison

In some ways I can agree with this statement and in other ways I can disagree with this statement. I think that there are certain things on T.V. that children do not need to be watching. Children are so impressionable and what they watch could have a pretty big impact on how they act and how they think. For example MTV is not a good channel for a younger kid to be watching. There are things on that channel that kids do not to be aware of at a young age. There are also other channels that would just be damaging to a child and their learning. On the other hand there are shows on T.V. that are not harmful to children at all. Nickelodeon is a channel that would not be so harsh on a child’s learning and impression. There are some T.V. shows that get the children to interact and learn a little bit too. My little sister knew how to count to 10 in Spanish by the age of 7 just by watching Dora the Explorer. Television in general can harm someone if all they do or want to do is sit around and watch it. The children need to know when it is a good time to watch T.V. and when there are better things to do.

Ads

Advertising as I see it is not very strong. I am not one to fall into the traps of advertisers. A tall beautiful skinny girl is not going to persuade me to go buy a pair of shoes or perfume. Advertisers do a great job at catching peoples’ eyes though. I think that advertisers try too hard to reach out to the audience. They can sometimes be offensive or make us feel as if we are not pretty enough or skinny enough.  I hate how alcohol and cigarette ads, two things that are not good for your health, always have ads with very attractive healthy looking people in them.  It is like they are trying to tell us that if we drink that beer or smoke this brand of cigarettes we will look and feel like the people in their ads. That to me is wrong and very deceiving. I know that advertisers are only doing their jobs to sell their products but sometimes it gets a little over board. Personally I think that awareness ads are the best out of all of them. They bring out the truth in products such as cigarettes and alcohol.