I found this article very interesting because it described how the audience should view art has changed over time. The way the audience views art has changed how the artists portrays his or her artwork. Before 1780, most operas and symphonies were about storms and battles because those sounds could easily be heard over the audience’s chattering and the conductor’s stick tapping. After 1780, when audiences began to quiet down, opera and symphonies began to reflect more on human emotions and feelings than storms and battles. I found that very interesting because in a way the audience influenced how music has changed throughout history.

In addition,I found the phrase “taste requires sentiment in heart and precision in mind,” very interesting. I agree with this claim because in order to reflect on an artist’s work, you have to put yourself in the artists’ shoes. That requires the audience to be empathetic and try to decode what the artist is trying to say through his or her work. I believe in order to do that, the viewer must have a keen eye for details. Little details can be the key to decoding the artist’s story or message.

I thought the connection between aesthetic and morality was interesting. I would never consider beauty to reflect on the human experience or morality. I think this is something to consider when I’m working on my sequence project.

An idea that I got from this piece for my sequence project is to show how maybe art has changed through time. Perhaps, how we view art has changed through time. I may not go with this but just thinking about how I alter what I choose my viewer to see based on time can change how my project is perceived to the audience.