fix essay

KAI ZHANG

ENG101

01/31/2016

THE ARCHITECT AND DESIGN

The artist has a major work of using the imaginative skills to bring out a tangible object bearing the ideas, emotions and all that the artist would like to express to the world. The main work that an artist does even before creating a design of the artifact is to clearly understand the idea presented to him/ her or that which is conceived from his /her own imaginations and internalize it understanding the reason for which it is to be created. Also if the artist does not understand the impact that is intended to be brought to the audience by the design then it will be hard to come up with a great and satisfying design. The artist’s conception of the idea is an aspect that is important to the design and that which will ensure that the design is satisfying and attractive to the audience. The artifact or design could be very good but if the conception does not bring forth intuition and humanity which entails the human feelings and emotions. The artist in his observation and interpretation brings out this in the ideas conceived in the mind.

The artist has to have a clear sense to organize and condense the sensory or imagined information. This helps him/her to classify and sort information into a sensible piece of information that can be drawn, and constructed to bring out a tangible creation. The interpretation of various world issues by the artist should be the conceived ideas as a result of the condensed imaginations and the beliefs surrounding the imagination integrated with both the psychology of environment and art.

Maya Lin in the design of ‘A strong clear vision’ a design for the United States of America to mourn the 57661 people who died during the veteran war, had internally conceived the idea of mourning the people in a way that all Americans would be brought to unity. She had an idea of bringing forth an original design that was a clear picture of grieve in the nation and also to the families of the Veterans who died. According to her the choice of the black granite rock was directed by the fact of a universal grieve color for the world; a point we would say as the integration of a belief into the design. Despite many individuals who kept questioning her decision and the request to change her original design she remained strong to her first vision. She saw unity in grieve as the many families come together in one reason as they all stretch hands holding various names there would be so many on the wall uniting, knowing each other and staring new life together. She designed a black granitic wall with the names of the dead chronologically recorded with the dates of their death. Her design here is original and up to date has remained a great academic artifact that has won awards. This design has a conception of fighting on world peace on her part.

A second design of Maya is the design of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery. This design she sought to bring forth the theme of fighting hate and instead bringing hope. In her design, Maya designed a table that records the names of the civil rights martyrs who died in their fight for civil rights in Alabama a city known for its richness in the fight for civil rights. The engravings that are encrypted on the rock with the chronicles moving from the table’s centre and the powerful quote of Martin Luther King Jr “we will not settle until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream”. According to her explanation, time could be expressed as a table of intertwining people’s lives with death, politics and legislation. This is a memory to the history of fight for justice. One of the unique facts about Maya’s designs is that they all start from a point of conceptual understanding. When asked to design it by Dee she explained that she had to understand conceptually what it is all about without visiting the site.

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