I felt one of my classmates did an great job of this when I reviewed her blog in which she explained what she found when you visited the Philadelphia Art Museum. As of the rest of us Brittany first read Berger and then visited the museum. She opens up her blog with this statement, "Museums can inspire, change, guide, or teach you. They allow a person to understand concepts more deeply because of the informal learning environment they create, while teaching valuable concepts. I recently visited the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and I was not only very much inspired by what I saw, but felt like I had finally began to understand some of the concepts I read in John Berger's Ways of Seeing." (Kummer). Visiting the museum we were able to pull everything we had learned together and physically see the points Berger had made.
One thing I think Brittany did especially well at was going step by step with what Berger had said and how it applied in specific pieces of art. Like many other students in our class Brittany focused on Berger's "Naked" vs "Nude". But what she did differently that stood out was the way she went through and made it visible for an audience to see that without prior knowledge of Berger's concept they would be able to fully understand after reading her blog. "When I first read this idea of nude vs. naked, I understood what Burger meant. But to be honest with you I wasn't convinced as to what he was saying. When I visited the art museum, it really all came together. The connections in Burgers ideas compared to the paintings I spend hours trying to understand were jumping out at me in a way I didn't imagine upon my arrival to the museum." (Krummer).
I really like how she explained it so well that I was able to see exactly what she saw but not only that, I was able to see Berger's point also. She explained and used examples so well that I was better able to understand Berger. I fell Brittany really grasphed the concept of what we were learning in class and was able to put it to use when she was in the museum on her own. She was able to recall what she had learned and further explain it with examples. After reading Brittany's blog about her experience in the Philadelphia Art Museum I not only was able to see that she fully understood Berger but she also helped me better understand him as well.
Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. London: British Broadcasting, 1973.
Krummer, Brittany. "Art as We Know It - ." Brittany's Blogs. N.p., Mar. 2014. Web. 13 Apr. 2014.
"Philadelphia Museum of Art | Our Story." Philadelphia Museum of Art | Our Story. 2013 Philadelphia Museum of Art, Web. 13 April. 2014.