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A piece of media that I encountered in the past week was an advertisement for a YouTube video. What was special about this advertisement is that I did not skip it even though I could, the reason being that I found this advertisement a work of art. While I can’t link the actual ad, this link shows a similar experience\u00a0here<\/a>. What I found artistic about this advertisement is that it was different from any ad I had seen before and it drew me in, it made me wonder. The ad was an interactive 360 (though I would instead call it spherical video since you can see more than just a panorama but up and down as well) ride in an audi car. You could see the cockpit of the car as well as gaze out of any window, including the rear window. These ad was in a sense an experience that made me want to resonate, or find meaning in it.Greenblatt describes wonder as the ability to draw in a viewer, and while it was only an advertisement, this one drew me in because if the experience it offered me. <\/span><\/p>\n

Also, Benette describes the soft definition to what art is, an object that describes rather than the method by which it was created. I think this ad was art in that it shows what our culture appreciates. The ad features a long clear highway and a city skyline in the background thus showing our appreciation for industry as symbolized by the road. Some may argue that the point of advertisements are to reach the consumers by any means possible. While this may be true, I think that advertisement in their own right can be art in that they resonate with their audience and can hence help us as researches understand what a culture was like based on advertisements. As an example, we study WWII propaganda which were evocative of the time. I believe that a characteristic of art is that is engaging and evocative.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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