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Relationship of Art with visually impaired (self.Blind)
submitted by aes4275
I'm a current art student at the University of Texas at Austin doing a research project about visually impaired people's experience with art. I'm most interested in how the visually impaired experience art and the emotions that one can feel from art.
What is the best way that people personally experience art? What are some of your favorite pieces of art? How do you typically go about discovering new pieces of art? What emotions do you experience while going through different variants of art?Most importantly, art can be whatever you want it to be, music, paintings, sounds, readings, etc.
Thanks for the consideration. I'm genuinely interested to read about this relationship.
What is the best way that people personally experience art? What are some of your favorite pieces of art? How do you typically go about discovering new pieces of art? What emotions do you experience while going through different variants of art?Most importantly, art can be whatever you want it to be, music, paintings, sounds, readings, etc.
Thanks for the consideration. I'm genuinely interested to read about this relationship.
fastfinge 2 points 5y ago
I'm not sure that our relationship with music, books, or food (cooking is an art) would be much different from a sighted person's. As for visual art, I personally have no relationship with it, and no interest in it. There are actually art galleries that describe artwork for the visually impaired. Maybe that works better for people who had vision previously? Or maybe visual art is just something I'm supposed to care about because it's culturally relevant? With all do respect to the art galleries doing there best to be fully accessible, and all power to the blind people who do enjoy that sort of thing, I'm not one of them.
LanceThunder 0 points 5y ago
haha i am guessing that galleries have to do whatever they can to be accessible in order to get government funding. if this is the case it really highlights how out of touch the law can be when it comes to accessibility. i seriously doubt any of those descriptions do the art justice.
KillerLag 2 points 5y ago
For the Art Gallery of Ontario, they have multisensory tours. It lets people touch some of the sculptures, but they've also made a multi-layered canvas for some artwork so people can feel the depth.
fastfinge 1 points 5y ago
As I say, those were personal reflections. The descriptions may well be effective for those with limited vision, or those who lost vision later in life. I am neither of those, so I really don't know either way. Calling for disability laws to be repealed based on a single persons preferences just shows your ignorance.
LanceThunder 2 points 5y ago
oh, i would never suggest that disability laws be repealed. i spend a good portion of my workday trying to get people to follow them. but i feel that a lot of laws could have been written in a way that is much more practical. too often people try to satisfy the letter of the law without trying to follow the spirit of the law.
fastfinge 1 points 5y ago
Ah, OK. I misunderstood your meaning. Still though, the varieties of disability are just so large, I can only speak for myself. The fact that audio descriptions in art galleries provides no value to me says nothing about how other folks might feel about it. Similarly, drive up ATMs with Braille on them seem silly, until you need to get money while in a cab, or driving with someone else you don't completely trust. I'd rather the law require more than require less.
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