When thinking about the words truth and fiction I first think about what makes something true and what makes something fiction. Truth means it has concrete evidence that it happened and fiction is un true, made up stories or ides excreta. But isn’t everything fiction at one point or another. Or maybe fiction has merged so much with truth that we as humans cannot tell them a part at times.
Art has always worked in this realm of truth and fiction, clamming fact within the artists work. An example art being a fact is Joseph Turner’s Slaves Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying from 1840. Turner is commenting on the injustice of enslavement and the unethical actions of the Diaspora. I feel that previous artwork was more truth based. That art was used more as a form of documentation of actual facts and less on the fiction. However at the same time there is all of Dali’s artwork that is all based on fictional places and time. Dali’s Persistence of Memory depicts melting clocks in an ambiguous location.
In lecture on Monday Kip viewed the movie Cynsin by Valerie Soe. This movie was based on her friend Cynthia entering a beauty pajent as an undercover reporter and winning the contest. Soe’s movie is very bias and only from her point of view. I think the movie is truth from her perspective and not from Cynthia’s at all. Soe is commenting on the way people are blinded by the fictional lives we live as being truth. She even states at the end of the movie that if she were in the same shows as Cynthia maybe she would have done the same thing. Maybe people actual forget who the really are when they conform to others standards.
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