Response to the Walker and Barrett articles

WALKER

This article is pretty much talking about big idea in artmaking.  I like the idea because it is very helpful on introducing personal idea in to people’s art work.  Since I always search online for the inspiration, before I created my work, this is kind of helpful for me.

However, one thing that makes me dislikes this article.  Since we study the academic writing for such a long time we know that only giant idea is not a good stuff for your work, you need specific and small point to make point of your work helpful. So this article may not comprehensive enough in my point of view.

Barrett

This article is quite useful for me, because it introduces a good skill when you do your visual art work.  Denotation and connotation are both very important for people who are using the metaphorical way to do art work.

However, I still hold a question after I read the article.  This article is always using the example to explain the differences of denotation and connotation, but I still don’t get is there a strict bound that can divide these too skills? Because, in my mind, sometimes things which are denotative can always be connotative as well.