Select a stanza from the song, When I Look at the World by U2, and explain what it is talking about in terms of the video and where that stanza occurs in it. It will be important for you to decide before writing your response who it is that is singing it in the video as well as to whom it is being sung. Draw upon what you have learned about Michelangelo and the Renaissance in both English and World History to help develop your commentaries. Minimum expectation is a 200 word, developed body paragraph (click on the picture above to go to the virtual tour of the Sistine Chapel online).Here is the link to the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q099989SbMg
Here is the link to the lyrics: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/u/u2/when+i+look+at+the+world_20141408.html
29 comments:
Cammie Gelbuda
Period 4
2/11/2012
In this blog for Michelangelo I chose the verse
“I see an expression
so clear and so true
That changes the atmosphere
When you walk to the room”
Because when he wakes up from the cave he looks up and there is a clear ceiling and he was wondering what he could sculpt in it so he went outside and look up at the sky and it was so clear he say what he wanted to put inside the cave. Michelangelo believes that the world can change in many different ways and the atmosphere also changes. And when he walks into a room he has to think about what he wants to do if it was not so clear and true he would not have to. So I chose this verse because I think that it best fits Michelangelo the best because you get to know what he thinks and also it helps describe him at the same time. So in my point of view I believe that Michelangelo lays down and wakes up and see what he wants to sculpt and then walk outside and see’s the clear and true sky and looks up and there what he is going to sculpt is already waiting for him.
I chose the part:
"Tell me, tell me
What do you see
Tell me, tell me
What's wrong with me"
Michelangelo thoughts on sculpting was that he was not creating something but setting them free from the stone cage they were trapped in.
He is the one that sees the world differently, and sometimes I think he wonders why others do not see it as he does. He sees something beautiful in the horrible, some sort of peace that shines like a dim light through all the chaos, a story in the stone, a painting in the clouds. I believe that sometimes he thinks that there has to be something wrong with him, others do not see what he sees, it does not mean there is something wrong with him. It means he is special.
Kealani Beltran
Period 6
2/12/12
I have chosen the following stanza to analyze: "When the night is someone else's
And you're trying to get some sleep
When your thoughts are too expensive
To ever want to keep"
This particular verse is told from Michelangelo's point of view, and conveys his feelings as he is lying beneath a rocky ceiling, attempting to escape from his duties as a painter of the chapel. He understands exactly what he is doing, and at this point, he just does not have the motivation to properly complete the unfinished job. The longer he lays and tries desperately not to think of what needs to be done, the more money is being wasted, second by second. Michelangelo is incredibly gifted, however, without any significant form of motivation he finds himself unable to rest, haunted by the thought of the disappointment both the Pope and the whole of the church will show if he chooses to leave the job eternally incomplete. Not only does he have no muse whatsoever, but he also discovers that what he is made to accomplish is really not even his own. Because of this, the true feeling he is placing into the painting is one of a forced nature. Realizing the fact that this is the Pope's dream, and not one of his own desire, he completely loses sight of any withstanding ambition, thus leading him to run away from his fears and disdainful occupation. Despite all of this, the next morning, he arises to find that the sun is casting the most mysterious illumination, and the formation of the clouds appears to take the shape of God. This will prove to become an outstanding push directed towards Michelangelo's inclusive career and trigger his long lost artistic and extensive creative drive.
Krizelle DeGuzman
Period 6
For this blog I have chosen the verse:
"So I try to be like you,
Try to feel it like you do.
But without you it's no use,
I can't see what you see,
When I look at the world."
In this part I think it is Michelangelo who is singing and that he is singing this to the pope because in the music video this verse is sung when he's standing on a mountain looking at the the sun and sky, which was after he ran away and was hiding from the pope's armies, but then he went back and started to redo the whole ceiling in the Sistine Chapel. This verse channels Michelangelo's thoughts while he was taking in his surroundings. I suppose he was trying to see how the world was in the pope's eyes because he was the one who assigned Michelangelo the job and just wanted something on the ceiling. He didn't even really care what it was as long as it looked nice and pretty. Michelangelo gave up on it soon though because the pope wasn't there to explain how he saw it so it would be pointless to try even longer and that's when he just accepts that he won't ever see the world the way others do. He will only see the world through Michelangelo's eyes and what he sees is a person trapped inside of a block of stone who wants to be set free.
Alissa Maggard
Period 4
2/12/2012
"Tell me, tell me
What do you see
Tell me, tell me
What's wrong with me"
In one interpretation of the video, Michelangelo is the one who is meant to be singing this to the officials and attendees on the Sistine Chapel. As a portion of this stanza, "Tell me, tell me, What do you see, Tell me, tell me" is sung, the video shows a scene that pans across the entire finished ceiling. This could be Michelangelo's way of silently asking those of the Chapel and fellow members of the crowd their opinion on it, so he could gain a general idea of how it and his effort is appreciated. As for the line "What's wrong with me", the man had put forth a tremendous amount of effort into a median of art he was uncomfortable with and conquered the difficult and frustrating lack of flow of creativity as to what and how he was going to paint. Overall, he had overcome a multitude of huge difficulties for an artist, and the church officials appreciated it (not the creator of it, himself, just IT) only as a gift for their divine worship and not for the absolutely outstanding accomplishments he obtained in the long process of completing a project (that he hardly wanted to do in the first place) for them. This causes Michelangelo to question himself and wonder "what's wrong with [him]". As an artist myself, I cannot express in words how frustrating it would be to experience such a significant lack of proper appreciation on a commission that I had put so much ill-required work and heart into, despite the consistent nagging on when I would finish.
Period 4
"So I try to be like you
Try to feel it like you do
But without you it's no use
I can't see what you see
When I look at the world"
When Michelangelo looks into the majestic sunset and sees the beautiful backdrop for his soon to be project, this part of the song is played. I think that someone unknown is singing the song yearning to see the world with a vision like the great Michelangelo. This unknown person represents anybody who has ever heard about Michelangelo’s life and wondered what it was like to see the world through someone as visionary as him. “So I try to be like you; try to feel it like you do,” I think that everyone that looks at the artwork in the Sistine Chapel has felt like this, because to be able to paint the way that he did, one would have to have had an incredibly creative and visionary mind. The time and effort that it took to create such masterpiece is so monumental that it is obvious to any viewer that this man saw the world very differently than the general populous. I don’t know how he saw the world because I am not able to see the world in a super creative way, but I do know that what he did was absolutely amazing and I am so glad to have learned about him.
Amanda Jerd
Period 6
I chose the lines:
“Tell me, tell me,
What do you see
Tell me, tell me
What’s wrong with me”
I chose these lines from U2’s song When I look at the World because they seemed to have the most meaning for Michelangelo himself. At this point of the video, Michelangelo has already finished his grueling task of painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling; everyone is exclaiming over his work, but they do not see just how amazing it is, for he – the loather of painting – spent a massive amount of time planning and executing his work that he did not want to do in the first place. As the masses gather to praise the work, they seem to forget the artist and all the time put into it; the focus point is the product of suffering and even then it is not fully appreciated. Because the pope and gatherers can only see the finished product, they do not know just how much this piece of work means to Michelangelo. Because of this, Michelangelo wants to know what their perception of his masterpiece is and when it is not exactly up to par, he feels hurt that they cannot know the depth of himself or his creation. This makes him wonder if he has something wrong with him that he would desire to have himself and his hard work appreciated more fully.
Nick Palmares
per. 4
2/13/12
in the song i chose the stanza "Tell me, tell me
What do you see
Tell me, tell me
What's wrong with me"
i believe that the one singing in this video is Michelangelo and he is singing about his works on the sistine chapel. in the line where it says "tell me, tell me, what do you see?", in the video it shows the crowd of people in the chapel and the camera goes along the ceiling where Michelangelo did his work, and it seemed like nobody was really paying attention to the art work and i think Michelangelo hoped that people would come in and be mesmorized by it and for him to be reconized. and in the Lines "Tell me, Tell me, Whats wrong with me?" its more the reality of it and its not what Michelangelo was picturing it to be, in the video it shows everyone in the chapel and it does a close up on him and he looks sad and depressed because nobody is aknowleging him or thanking him and he doesnt think he got the credit he deserved and woould like the be appreciated for his years of work he put in this project.
Cynthia Arocan
period 4
2/13/12
Stanza 3:
"When the night is someone elses
And you're trying to get some sleep
When your thoughts are too expensive
To ever want to keep"
Michelangelo loves to sculpt and despises painting, but he sucks it up because in the Renaissance you did everything you can to get a job even if that ment doing something you hated. A priest offers him a job, to paint the celling of the Sistine Chape. Michelangelo takes the job and decides to do his best even though he hates painting. He gets there and the priest gives him the lay out of what he would like. Michellangelo doesn't like it so he runs off. This is where stanza 3 comes in. The reason I picked stanza 3 is because every night he is away from the job the more the priest has to pay. Michelangelo can't sleep do to all of the thoughts going threw his head. He finaly comes up with a plan when he wakes up and sees the roof of the cave.
Anne Broussard
Period 4
2/14/12
"So I try to be like you
Try to feel it like you do
But without you it's no use
I can't see what you see
When I look at the world"
When I hear this part of the song, I think of how Michelangelo is trying to be like God, feel like God, and see what God sees. He tries to be what he thinks God would be when he paints the ceiling, he tries to feel like what God would feel when painting the ceiling, and most importantly, he was trying to see what God would see when painting the ceiling.
Annelise Rank
1/14/12
Period:4
I think that the following stanza best describes Michaelangelo:
"When you look at the world
What is it that you see
People find all kinds of things
That bring them to their knees"
When I read this verse, I see Michaelangelo saying, "When you look at the world what do you see? I see art. People find all kinds of things that bring them to their knees- Art brings me to my knees". I can see Michalengelo saying this because as an artist he sees the world differently from everyone else, he has his own vision of things, and brings them to life in a way differently than anyone else could. "People find all kinds of things That bring them to their knees" I feel like when I read this verse, I hear the artrist, U2, singing about a girl; but in Michaelangelo's case he is talking about Art, as if art was HIS woman (if that makes sense. Michaelangelo isn't talking about a REAL woman, he is talking about Art, as a women.
I also think that when the verse says, "People find all kinds of things That bring them to their knees" Michaelangelo could be saying how everyone has their own thing in their life, that brings them to their knees, something that they are in awe of. He could be saying how he is in awe of art, and how he has such a respect for art in general; and that is why it was his passion.
Michaelangelo could look at a block of clay and see the person, the figure, the character that is IN SIDE of the clay waiting to come out- saying that, you could tell he had a real gift; an eye for something that most people couldn't do- he had such a passion and a love for something to where he could look at anything and interpret it in it's REAL meaning, other than what we, as people see it as. For example- I could look at a dingy old tree and say how ugly it was, but He could look at it, and almost find a story about it, how it is beautiful, (if that makes sence).I don't know about you but when I look at a block of clay, all I see is a block of clay. What I am trying to say, is that Michaelangelo had a real eye for art, and talking about him in past tense is almost weird, because his art is still alive today.
Edith Chavez
Period 4
The stanza I chose:
I'm in the waiting room
I can't see for the smoke
I think of you and your holy book
When the rest of us choke
I feel like Michelangelo is singing to the pope about his own point of view during the mass when the pope is in the front and he is in the crowd. “I'm in the waiting room, I can't see for the smoke” seems to be Michelangelo describing the Sixteenth Chapel as a waiting room, since it is where they go to before death and afterwards their religion says they go to heaven. The candles give off some smoke as does the incense, which is probably the smoke that doesn’t allow Michelangelo see and the others most likely cannot see either. He mentions the problem of the smoke because it probably does not allow the other people to see and appreciate the ceiling which now has his marvelous painting and is frustrated about it. “I think of you and your holy book, when the rest of us choke” continues on the moments when there is too much smoke in the Chapel. This is the line that shows the song is oriented at the pope since he is the person who has the “holy book”, aka the bible. He says he and the others are choking because of the smoke though it could also be in awe of the pope or in Michelangelo’s case, envy because the pope gets the attention while the greatness of his paintings are not fully appreciated or wondered at. Overall, the artist is annoyed, frustrated, and jealous about his work being mostly ignored and the pope getting so much attention.
"So I try to be like you
Try to feel it like you do
But without you it's no use
I can't see what you see
When I look at the world"
Michelangelo is singing this part. Michelangelo is painting this as a non-Christian and has trouble visualizing what to put on the ceiling. He is trying to put on the same lens as the Christians that are looking at this ceiling. He realizes however without God, the one their religion is based on, he won't be able to paint what his employers are looking for on the ceiling. Like the renaissance idea he is going to be flexible and change and look through their lens. The reason for this need to be flexible is because there is less people on the earth, so some people have to fill multiple roles. Michelangelo has to change his role from a sculptor to a painter, from a non-Christian viewpoint to a Christian one. Michelangelo encompasses the renaissance idea because he does everything. He is well rounded and because of this reels in the cash. Although Michelangelo's attempts however he can't get the exact same view because he never becomes a Christian.
“When you look at the world
What is it that you see
People find all kinds of things
That bring them to their knees”
This portion of the video illustrates Michelangelo’s first stages of inspiration as he tries desperately to wrap his head around and find some enthusiasm for this enormous and prestigious work of art that he must create for the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. As a sculptor, he is flummoxed as to where to even begin such an undertaking. His sense of hopelessness is portrayed at the beginning of the video as he is shown kneeling on the floor of the chapel, as the church officials walk away, looking up at the vast spans of cement and plaster that is now to be his canvas. As the lyrics of the song begin, mountainous landscapes pan across the screen and a haggard Michelangelo is shown lying on the floor of a spacious cave. As he rubs his tired eyes, it dawns on him that the ceiling of the cave is the natural twin of the Sistine Chapel ceiling. This stunning realization “brings him to his knees” as this flash of insight reveals the once insurmountable task of painting the ceiling to indeed be feasible. After grasping that his canvas at the Sistine Chapel is nothing but stone, Michelangelo feels more comfortable with the project if he views it as a sculpture of sorts. How one takes on immense tasks is all a matter of how they “look at the world”; when a situation is not in your comfort zone, it is important to adapt. Although ambiguous, I believe that it is Michelangelo singing this song, not to anyone in particular, but as a general cry for inspiration and the motivation to execute this feat.
Hailey Wall
Period 4
I have enjoyed learning about the Renaissance and the creativity that has stemmed from it. An important person linked to the Renaissance is Michelangelo, the famous sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer. The lyrics in the song, When I Look at the World, perfectly describe what Michelangelo must have been thinking while painting the ceiling in the Sistine Chapel. This song reveals the innate insecurities that must have haunted Michelangelo during the process of his well-known masterpiece. The last stanza is perhaps the most important stanza in the song:
“Tell me, tell me
What do you see?
Tell me, tell me
What's wrong with me?”
In these final few verses, it is as if Michelangelo’s very thoughts are being sung aloud. Behind every great artist is an influential role model, and I believe that Michelangelo’s role model is God. God is the ultimate artist, and this is who Michelangelo is referring to in the song. When Michelangelo surveys the mountains and sky, he sees the intricate details of God’s work. Although Michelangelo accepts that he cannot completely “see” the way God sees, he tries his best—and this is shown in his remarkable displays of art. In the end, Michelangelo studies the people gathered to look at his art. He stands there hoping that people will see more than just paint strokes. There is so much more to “see” than what meets the eye.
Sonia Mendonca
Period 4
2/15/12
The verse I have chosen is:
“I see an expression
So clear and so true
That changes the atmosphere
When you walk to the room”
From the very beginning of this video, Michael Angelo, as a non-Christian, has been asked by the pope to paint a mural on the churches ceiling. At that very moment when Michael stares at the ceiling he must be thinking to himself, “I’m no painter, I am only known for my sculptures.” Michael has trouble visualizing what to paint and only wishes that he doesn’t have to wait any longer to see what the pope does. Relating to the lines “I see and expression, so clear and so true” this is the time when Michael had awakened inside of the cave, he looks up and sees what our eyes aren’t able to see. He sees a beautiful work of art right before his very eyes that inspires him. This also occurs to him when he is staring at the sun rise and the clouds. In the lines, “That changes the atmosphere, when you walk into the room” this is about the time when Michael steps out of the pit of darkness and is placed in front of this inspirational environment, but I can also relate this line to the church seen. Once the church ceiling is a wonderful masterpiece, it completely changes the environment of the church when you walk into the room, but people seem to not notice his artwork. They continue to have their regular religious ceremonies as usual and don’t realize that there is beauty right above their heads.
When the night is someone else’s
And you're trying to get some sleep
When your thoughts are too expensive
To ever want to keep
When there’s all kinds of chaos
And everyone is walking lame
You don't even blink now, do you
Or even look away
In this excerpt, the person speaking is Michelangelo and he is speaking to the Pope. In the first and second lines, Michelangelo is working for the Pope and is fully committed to completing the job he was tasked to do. Because he had such a strong belief in finishing the job he was asked to do, Michelangelo's night belonged to the Pope. Therefore, he was fortunate to get only a few hours of sleep, if any at all. In the third and fourth lines, Michelangelo is saying his time is too precious for him to be wasting it with unachievable or lofty ideas. In the fifth and sixth lines, he is speaking to the Pope asking him how he (the Pope) could have fought so many wars, in which he killed so many men, without feeling any sorrow or regret. In the final line Michelangelo asks the Pope how he could killed men without looking away.
steven fraser
"So I try to be like you
Try to feel it like you do
But without you it's no use
I can't see what you see
When I look at the world"
this part of the song is played when Michelangelo looks at over the mountains and sees the image of god reaching out. I belive that someone who is unknown is singing the song hoping that they will be able to one day see the world in the same light as michelangelo did. this person repersents anybody who wants to learn to look at the world in a different way and experince the feelings that can come from it. “So I try to be like you; try to feel it like you do,” I belive that anybody who has seen the Sistine Chapel has had a feeling similar to this , because they are amazed that a human could create something so breathtaking. the time he spent working on his masterpeice makes it clear he saw things in a way that we could only hope to experiance . I cant begin to imagian how he saw the world because I an one of the most uncreative people who will ever meet and i absoultly despise art but i reconize that he was a amazing person who is rightly celbrated for his work.
When the night is someone else's
And you're trying to get some sleep
When your thoughts are too expensive
To ever want to keep
I see an expression
So clear and so true
That changes the atmosphere
When you walk to the room
These lyrics resonate with me the most because they describe Michelangelo's conflict of whether he should do this project. Line three of the stanza show that money could be a possible motive for his work on the Sistine Chapel because the Catholic Church was wealthy enough to front large sums of money for art. Michelangelo was an established artist and money was a motivating factor for him to do this project because he was a sculptor by trade. Lines one and two describe Michelangelo's pressure of having a client pressure him and how this pressure made it harder for him to flourish artistically. Michelangelo was reluctant to do this project but social pressures and money being offered proved to hard for him to resist. The second stanza talks about how Michelangelo got his inspiration from the sky. The video show Michelangelo on top of mountain looking into the sky and it shows that Michelangelo replicated the what he saw in their in the atmosphere of the Sistine Chapel. He used the sky as his inspiration for his painting because it would be breath taking to walk into a room and look up and see God on the ceiling. The adding of God to the ceiling is the atmosphere changing aspect that the song mentions. This music video and song gave me great insight on the painting of Sistine Chapel. The music video was really well put together and timing of the lyrics and the video helped me realize the true meaning of the lyrics.
This is something i must turn in to make the deadline as i study for my history exam. A re-post (with an actual adequate response)will come soon :)
This song is representational of Michelangelo's work because it expresses the wondrous and indescribable beauty of his art.
“So I try to be like you
Try to feel it like you do
But without you it's no use
I can't see what you see
When I look at the world”
In the video this stanzas part in the song coincides with the scene of Michelangelo dramatically gazing off into the distance at a formation of an ominous looking cloud mass. At this moment in the video I feel that the singer of the song would best be portrayed as Michelangelo himself due to the fact that he had just been given the monumental task of painting the ceiling of the Sistine chapel even though he is better known for his sculptures. The combination of this scene and stanza represents Michelangelo feeling overwhelmed and trying to find the image of the painting inside of the clouds, but all that he sees is his blank canvas starring strait back at him. Until the clouds begin to disperse, raveling the image of the painting to him, it also makes him realize that he alone was given the task of painting the chapel ceiling and the image of the clouds giving way to the sun allows for him to see that he alone is responsible for taking the plain plaster ceiling and transform it into an image that is symbolically equivalent to the sun. As for to whom he may be singing to, I feel that Michelangelo is singing to his canvass (the chapel ceiling), because if you look at it through the eyes of the canvass I am sure that it sees it’s self as becoming a beautiful work of art but it can not unless the artist (in this case Michelangelo) can see what it sees and unearths its hiding masterpiece.
Jessica Wirth
Period 4
"So I try to be like you
Try to feel it like you do
But without you it's no use
I can't see what you see
When I look at the world"
When Michelangelo is assigned the task to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel by the pope, it is an offer he would not dare to refuse, but he feels hopeless because it's a huge area that he has to cover with paint. Once he wakes up in the cave and sees how the rock above him makes its own design and then later when he looks at the cloud and sees intricate portraits inside of it, he uses nature as his inspiration. During this verse of the video, Michelangelo seems to be the "singer" of the song while everyday objects in nature are what he is singing to. He imagines how nature would cover the ceiling of the Chapel which is where the line "so I try to be like you" comes from. He realizes that covering the ceiling of the Chapel is not as hard as he had thought if he draws his inspiration from elsewhere instead of trying to come up with all the ideas by himself. The ceiling of the Chapel, like the ceiling of the cave, is made out of stone where it has already been pre-carved by humans, forming shapes that make it easier for Michelangelo to paint it. Because he draws his inspiration from nature, he is able to complete the task of painting the ceiling and is remembered for that great accomplishment even to this day.
Manisha Dail
Period 4
"When you look at the world
What is it that you see
People find all kinds of things
That bring them to their knees"
Michelangelo was given the job to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, but yet he knows he is not a painter although he can paint, he would rather sculpt. When the Pope gives him the job to paint he is a bit stumped as what he should paint and why it is that they pope requests him to paint the ceiling. He wonders what he will be able to paint. As he lies in a cave he looks up at the cave ceiling and in visions it. As a sculptor he can see what he wants to sculpt almost as if he can see a person trapped in the stone and he is just letting them out. As he lies looking at the ceiling he can see the people trapped in the stone then as he goes outside he sees the clouds and the sun and now he can see what other people would like to see. He finally figured out what he needs to paint and this is such a great moment and he is filled with tears of joy and falls to his knees just as the song had said. He has now found the happiness that other people in this world look at and doesn’t need to wonder what other people see in the world because he himself has found out what he needs. He has what he needs for the chapel and he drew his inspiration from nature and his ability to now see for himself. To this day the Sistine chapel remains a great piece of art and has a great place in history.
Period 6
Brynn Villa
“I see an expression,
So clear and so true,
That changes the atmosphere,
when you walk in the room”
I chose this stanza because at this moment in the video, Michelangelo is trying to understand what the Pope is looking for and as he looks up into the cave he sees something that normal people wouldn’t see. He also goes out of the cave and looks at these gorgeous clouds and understands finally what the Pope is looking for. Michelangelo doesn’t like to paint, yet he is called to paint a remarkable painting and he doesn’t give up either. In this song, this stanza seems more like it’d be sung by Michelangelo to, himself I guess you could say, because he is kind of talking to himself saying, “I see something whenever I walk into that room that changes the atmosphere.” He took that feeling and turned it into a painting. That painting now stands high and beautiful in the chapel. It took true understanding of the world for him to paint that painting and not only did it change his perspective but also the people around him. No one can take one glance and understand that picture. People sit and stare and try to understand what Michelangelo saw and how he saw it.
Tristan Mauricio
Period 6
2/16/12
"I can't wait any longer
I can't wait 'til I'm stronger
Can't wait any longer
To see what you see
When I look at the world"
I have picked the seventh stanza and I see the Renaissance artist Michelangelo reacting to the Pope’s job for him that he could never do. Michelangelo loved everything about art except painting which he dreaded and had no motivation to paint the ceiling of the Sistine chapel. Michelangelo decided to run away to get away from the Pope just showing how bad he wanted to get away from the task. The Pope had no idea what he wanted the immense ceiling to look like so how would he expect a sculptor to paint? Michelangelo came back and apologized to the Pope for running away stated perfectly in the 3rd and 4th lines. He needed a little push in going out of his comfort zone and once he saw the arch of stone he saw the people in them but instead of chiseling them out he had seen them in paint. Michelangelo had all the potential to do anything with art and even though he was forced to do an impossible task forced upon him and did a great job. Michelangelo’s vision was clouded at first but with a little night out he knew what he had to do.
Tell me, tell me
What do you see
Tell me, tell me
What's wrong with me
I chose this verse because I believe that this is the most important part of the video and the song. This is the part where they revealed Michelangelo's painting to the public. I think Michelangelo was upset because he worked so hard on the painting and put so much thought and effort into it that he probably felt that no one could possibly fully appreciate it. The worst part was that he doesn't even like painting. I think that's the part I admire the most. Even though he hates painting, he still spent all of that time and effort on it. He didn't go "Oh I hate painting, I'm just going to get this over with as quickly as possible." He did the best job he could and the result was amazing. When all of the people in the chapel were admiring the ceiling, he was like "You don't even know the half of it."
Brianna Brinzo
“I see an expression,
So clear and so true,
That changes the atmosphere,
when you walk in the room”
This stanza from “When I look at the World” illustrates the ambience of Michelangelo’s greatest work and expresses the significance of the art of the Sistine Chapel. In the video, this line is sung as Michelangelo attempts to comprehend the Pope’s expectations and develops ideas for the masterpiece. He then recognizes with the Pope’s ideas and creates the greatest “chef-d'oeuvre” possibly of all time. I believe that this stanza of the song can communicate for anyone their experience within the presence of the artwork. A dramatic change within the atmosphere was the aim of Michelangelo and he certainly accomplished this goal with regards to the Pope and a centralized theme of God and the creation of man. Michelangelo’s personal perspective of the world certainly influenced the art on the chapel ceiling. If not for his extraordinary understanding of human life, he would have not been able to achieve such an emotional impression within the art.
for this blog i choose the verse
"When you look at the world
What is it that you see
People find all kinds of things
That bring them to their knees"
Because i think that the quote from the song is from his point of view fro example he found insperation from nature but it took him a while to find the pair of clouds that inspired him and i think this is what he was asking himself while looking for insperation. michelangelo must have been so relieved when he finished it but i dont hink he saw very much in the painting while others say it brought them to their knees.
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