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Walt Disney Body Image Essay

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What are your thoughts about Walt Disney’s comments about the artist’s work? I can definitely understand the perspective and mindset of Disney’s comments toward Taryn Simon’s work. The whole point of Disney is to create a fantasy place where people can enter and forget about the troubles they face in real life and relax in a world where there is no stress and pressure of danger. Simon’s work would try to break that illusion, which Disney does not want. I agree with Disney’s mentality because sometimes, ignorance really is bliss. There should be some place where people can go to forget their problems (for a limited time) and just enjoy themselves.
Why did the artist choose to “look inward”? After 9/11, when the American government and media …show more content…

Explain the image and what you thought of her context and ideas in the image? Do you agree or disagree, why or why? The first image she shows is of the Nuclear Waste Storage and Encapsulation Facility at Hanford, Washington. The picture depicts a section nuclear waste barrels that resemble an outline of the United States. I thought that the context and ideas she offers are essential to understanding what the images actually are. If I was only given the image with any context, I would have no idea of what it is about or its meaning. Thanks to the context she gives, I can understand the subject of the picture and what it may represent figuratively. I agree with her belief of having both the abstract image and a factual context that ties the image down in a clear way. It offers a better way of understanding what they are about. Another image she shows is a room in the JFK airport where seized items from passengers are put. The picture contains a huge amount of different items, one of which is a pig’s head. Simon says that her goal was to capture a picture reminiscent of still life paintings. I agree with her idea to do so because it connects to a previous well known type of painting that allows viewers to understand the picture clearly.
Her series “The Innocence” images are contraction of and evidence of the truth, why? The images in Simon’s “The Innocence” are both a contradiction of and

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