Weekly Reflection

2/15/10

Art in Woody Allen films are self reflexive. In Annie Hall, it calls attention to romance, genre, sex comedy, and modern.
1. romance, sex
2. genre romance, sex comedy
3. modern more reliable

The more realistic painting will draw the natural (positive) response to the painting. It is realistic but not realistic in its reflexivity. It is through the representation of the real makes you pay attention.
Greenberg emphasized formalism. Cause v. effect. In formalism, what matters is the text itself. The Picasso work forces one to think with his strange and abstract paintings. Reppin paints the effect and puts everything out there for you in the painting. Rosenberg is an action painter; the action in a painting is what’s considered art. Originality is the spontaneous action. It is said that the critic is as important as the art. Benjamin said that art is reproducible in mass production. Adorno said that art has an aura and that aura of the painting is lost in the mass production.
Annie Hall is a modern romance that shows art and the aura of a painting in the museum when Allen’s character approaches a girl observing a painting. When he asks her what she thinks of the painting she says a long response of what she feels when looking at the painting which leaves Allen’s character confused and scared of the girl he thought looked good looking and normal.