Cartooning it up.

In class we have been watching some cartoons as a way to showcase some ideas about art. It is great how by using theses cartoons like spongebob and the Simpsons we can take something that is usually reserved for entertainment and use it as a teaching tool. The cartoons actually do have a lot of little subtleties that you wouldn't necessarily notice when just watching for pleasure. It is really interesting to look at those cartoons that we are so familiar with, especially the episode of Spongebob that we watched, and even though I have seen it a million and one times when looking at it from an academic point of view it is like i have never ever seen it before. I liked how in the Spongebob episode it showed how art doesn't always have to go by the rules of the book and that sometimes the rules can actually be stifling. Also in the Simpsons it was neat to see how Homer made art by accident and then he effectively turned the whole town into art. I think both episodes show that art doesn't have to be really traditional or be created using a set of rules, art can be anything that you make it.