The assignment is below:
1. a) Locate the art piece by a Deaf/De’Via artist that you initially picked and your discussion of it for the Week 1 Discussion.
b) Explain in 100-150 words max how the information in Lign 7 has altered your perception of this art piece given what you now know about language, history, and culture of Deaf people in the USA.
As stated above, please just write a 100-150 word paragraph, to answer how in-depth knowledge of “language, history, and culture of Deaf people in the USA” would alter my perception of “week 1 discussion.” I will attach my week 1 discussion, professor’s feedback, and links below. So, basically, I just need your professional knowledge about linguistic about deaf people in USA and incorporate the knowledge into my week 1 discussion. Thank you!
Also, Don’t worry about the deadline too much, if you need some extra time is totally fine.
My week 1 Discussion:
Dr. Betty G. Miller was a professional born to deaf artists in Philadelphia, United States. Her work depicts the deaf experience expressed in the most appropriate form of communication: visual art. In her artwork “Celebration”, depicts a different communication form for deaf people: gestures. Dr. Miller mainly used cold color to fulfill the background, contrasting the color difference to convey the idea of oppression of the deaf people. In the artwork, Dr. Miller enlarges people’s hands as well as coloring the hands to warm color, indicating the importance for deaf people to communicate through gestures and deaf people feel the world’s emotions through gesture movements. Dr. Miller did not put many details to people’s ears in this artwork, instead, she emphasized more on deaf people’s communication form: gestures by enlarging hands. Dr. Miller used color autonomy as a phenomenon, allowing each color to give its own space and agency. Expressionism is the theme that Dr. Miller delivered to the audience: people’s gesture refers to acceptance and embracement, refusing the priority of illusionism. Another aspect of this work shows the deaf people are more sensitive to emotions than normal people, such as different definitions of rude. Deaf people have cognitive benefits, so they pay more attention to the visual periphery. Dr. Miller mainly used warm colors to contrast the color in the background.
Professor’s feedback:
Good job here – just a few notes:
while you did a very nice job interpreting the art piece you chose, I think you could have made stronger connections to class material (e.g. you mention that deaf people pay more attention to the visual periphery, but I’m not sure this art piece shows this – the focus is actually on the centre of the painting, it seems). We also might want to avoid referring to hearing people as “normal”, because it kind of makes deaf people sound like they’re “not normal” – I’d suggest simply saying “hearing” vs “deaf” to avoid accidentally implying this
Link for the artist and the artwork:
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Dr. Betty G. Miller，Celebration， https://deaf-art.org/profiles/betty-g-miller/#iLightbox[gallery_image_1]/8 (Links to an external site.)
