Exercise in Imagination
Imagination signifies thoughts not perceived in the course of factual reasoning. Mental images of events or objects that derived fundamentally from the mind’s thought not occurrences involve imaginative skills. An individual can have a wide range or experiences existing only in the mind because of the power of imagination. Sasson, (2001) explains that, “Memory is actually a manifestation of imagination” (p. 1). Imagination has limitless boundaries, and imagination manifests in diverse forms. Daydreaming is a basic form of imagination. With the mind unengaged, imagination provides momentary relief from tension, calmness, and contentment (Sasson, 2001). This imagination exercise involves a visual art piece that produced character dialogue, reflection on possible occurrences, cultural considerations, main objectives of the artist, and personal thoughts concerning memories, emotions, and reactions.
Visual Art Piece
Harding Gallery’s Photostream Online presented the visual art piece, An Austrian Cold Painted Bronze that portrays an eagle preparing to fly (Harding Gallery, 2006). The eagle’s wings fully stretched, its beak open, and the eyes focused, seemed to be ready to start its flight. The eagle intended to soar through the sky. The yellow colored feet of the eagle, the black nails, and the bronzed body symbolized the strength, the purpose, the willingness to move effectively, and successfully. The wings a dark shade of gray with white shaded backdrops made the eagle seemed too perfect to be real; yet the expression of the face, the beak, and the outstretched wings created its own reality. The reality that the time has come, the moment is here, the eagle prepared to fly, the eagle will fly.
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...verse perspectives. This paper provided an imaginary perspective regarding the visual art piece, An Austrian cold painted Bronze, the portrait of an eagle preparing to fly. The character dialogue, reflection on probable occurrences, cultural considerations, main objective, and thought process of the artist, and personal thoughts concerning memories, emotions, and reactions demonstrates the inventive process the mind goes through to discover situational relevance.
Works Cited
Harding Gallery, (2006). An Austrian cold Painted Bronze. Retrieved April 8, 2011 from
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hardinggallery/5562000376/in/Photostream/
Sasson, R. (2001). The Power Imagination. Retrieved April 9, 2011, from
http://www.successconsciousness.com/index_000007.htm
ThinkQuest, (n.d.). Eagle Facts. Retrieved April 9, 2011 from
http://library.thinkquest.org/J002383/
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