Flashback

News:
Art imitates Everyday Living (Michelle Jones)
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20101003/ENTERTAINMENT0507/10030310/1069/ENTERTAINMENT05/Art+imitates+Everyday+Living


Description:
A collection of 17 oil paintings of daily live landscape opens at Tennessee State University’s Hiram Van Gordon Gallery.


Comment:
To be honest, I cannot quite understand contemporary art, especially abstract ones. So, when I first see this headline “Art imitates Everyday Living”, it arouses my interest. I know this is different from what I have seen before.


When people who like visual arts are looking for the news story everyday, how can they not get bored? It is a big question that how to make this kind of news story as outstanding as looking at a piece of real artwork.


This news story begins with flashback to one year ago, and the author uses anecdote to start the narration. It flows smoothly to the recent show and gives information about it. Next, the author describes the idea of the collection of the artist, “For the most part, the images come from me just walking around, taking pictures going from point A to point B”. Right, that’s what is called everyday living, it really adds beauty to the theme and headline. After that, Jones uses the description of one painting artwork to further give images to audiences. Moreover, “Grier paints in a traditional style”, after this opening sentence, the author explains the artist’s painting style and his differences from other artists that Grier works with.


Online news stories are usually shorter than articles on newspapers because of the changes of people’s reading habit. It is a short and simple story but with impressive memory after I finished reading, the structure and the quotes. When I am doing research of my news story, I will get much information as I can. It is a hard work to sort out what I should leave out and what I should write in the story with the most reasonable order. It is important to let readers read fluently and be clear of the theme.