One of the feeds I subscribed to from Time magazine, called “Looking Around,” is about art. All of the stories are written by the same person, Richard Lacayo. I normally would not have looked at a feed about art, but this one captured my attention with a story about how experts say Guernica, a Picasso painting depicting the horrors of war, is too damaged to move from its current place. The piece tied art in with current events and peaked my interest in the writer. I like his comments and opinions on the pieces he looks at and that he does not only review paintings. I found a few articles in the feed about artistic buildings and one about street art. I really enjoy the writer’s style. When talking about a work of art, he uses descriptive, visual language and metaphors that can create a picture in the reader’s mind. Through his vivid words, the writer lets his readers know exactly what he thinks about a particular piece. His style is not quite that of a critic because the purpose of his writing does not seem to be to persuade people to like or dislike a work. Instead, he seems to be giving his personal thoughts on the piece, as if he were writing a blog post. The writer publishes about once every day or two, so the feed has enough new information to keep me reading but not so much that I cannot read it all. In this feed, I at least skimmed through every article and thoroughly read the ones that were especially interesting. I am not sure if I will keep this feed or not because modern art is not something I would like to read about every day. However, I still consider the feed to be a good source of information on the subject.
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