Hograth's series of paintings called Marriage a-la-Mode was somewhat funny to me. We saw the paintings according to the story line and I sort of laughed when I saw them and was told their meanings. The paintings detail the story of a failed marriage and the story of a marriage for money. I find this series of paintings funny because they are contraversial and somewhat ironic. They show images that you will only get if you look at them more than once or know exactly where and what they are. The image I find the funniest would be the second one. The second one shows the married couple already failing. I find this funny because the arrangement was set up, and clearly not many arranged marriages work.
When it comes to marriage today there are many, many problems, espcially in Utah. Utah's culture pushes marriage onto teenagers and young adults that they feel like they have to get married. I'm not even consumed by the Utah culture and sometimes I feel I am doing a wrong because I am not getting married, but then I wake up and realize I would be making a mistake. Thats what I think people who get married this young are doing. They are making a mistake. Thats what is wrong with people in Utah and marriage. They get married when they are 19 or 20 before they are finacially stable or stable in general. If we were to create a painting or a series of paintings that show marriage now-a-days, it would be a five day piece where in the first one the couple meets, the second they go on a date and get engaged, the third they get married, the fourth have a fight, and the fifth they would be broken up already. I feel in Utah, people rush into marriage way to quickly therefore leading to marriages and failed marriages.
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