Answers to the Questions!

Here are the answers to the questions below as promised!:

1. Bill Viola’s work The Sleep for Reason is of course an odd and unique piece which symbolises many things both to the audience as well as to the artist himself. The use of time in this work is quite extraordinary and bounces between slow paced time frames to face paced moving pictures and animals and such. The sound is supposed to create a very loud and condescending tone on the audience when the video is fast paced however when the video is slow and shows the TV with the man sleeping, it’s a silent and almost even an eerie sound that is produced. What might this suggest?There seemed to be no technical issues and the possible interpretation of this could be sleeping and the title gives it all away. The title says The Sleep for Reason which should not be confused with reason to sleep. Sleeping happens for a reason and the reason is to strike up inspiration or ideas for people to think about the next day. If sleep didn’t exist where would imagination come from and how would people be able to achieve great and greater things in life.
2. The painting looks like its telling of a raft that has been swept to sea and people are suffering and holding on to each other due to the misery that has taken over them. People of different races are on the raft but they all seem to accept each other in this time of grief. From this i gather that Viola called his work The Raft due to the similar concept of people helping each other and holding each other in time of suffering or grief. People are trying to wave for help, some are lying down injured, some may be dead, others are clasping on to each other and this is a mirror image of what Viola had for his work, the body and facial expressions are the same if not they have minor differences.
3. This statement is true due to the many that put their perspectives in it. To Viola works do come out of boredom and crisis due to his life experiences. Viola as a six year-old child nearly drowned and this comes into play with some of his works incorporating water as well as suffering. The reason this statement is again true is due to other artists that within their own lives have experienced something that later on in their lives felt like they needed to express in some way or form.Thanks for reading and leave a comment below!