Art is subjective and from the previous presentation I got why it’s subjective, for analyzing and criticizing piece of art each person needs all his senses, life experiences, culture, and education to have an opinion towards it. Therefore, every artist when he creates his art piece needs the target audience base where they share the same culture view, the same background or the same interest to get what was his aim by creating it.
The example they showed of the Truck Driver photo (taken by Jodi Cobb , 1987) shows how the simple life of a Bedouin lady is .And that impression came to me according to the life we currently know in Saudi Arabia where women in Saudi Arabia don't drive .
For me I believe its overrated because the photo shows what is beyond women driving .The fact that she without Abaya and still covering her face shows freedom of choice combined with conservative religion and cultural beliefs, driving a truck shows that she knows what she is doing and she controls it very well and that shows from the look in her eyes and how she handling the door with confidence, the last thing is that she is serving her tribes with water and that shows independency as a Saudi woman not waiting for a man to help the tribe and how they respect and dependent on her .
But for a person to look at this photo without knowing the Saudi background would think, " Why they are covering their faces?" and not get the point of how this photo can make a statement.
Finally, any creative work shouldn't be judged from one point of you and consider the differences of the people and understand it.
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