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Ascetics: PHYLOSOPHY OF THE ARTS
What makes a work of
art? Art is all around us. The shape of our couch,
the building we work in, or the painting on the wall we pass every day and
take for granted. They say art is an idea or an idea of
beauty but –every persons definition of beauty is different---- It’s all
in the feeling that a person gets when looking at a so called work of
art. In the Video Ascetic: Philosophy of Art the Eras of
definition changed over many centuries. The Key principals seem to be
personal opinion of how a person views art. As man evolved over centuries
so did art. In the first centuries we viewed Cathedrals and
Statues and by the 20th century art evolved into paintings, books, films, Jazz,
musicals, and photography. Art use to be in the form of non-reality, a
woman with many curves, and voluptuous breast and with art now an upside
down urinal is considered art because it is not the norm-right side
up!
In this Video the
Philosopher Plato, the artist of the 4th Century BC was the realest to
me. He stated "Beauty by which all things are Beautiful".
Even though he held low opinions of other artist he made some points when
stating he felt a sense of treason for copy or talking something that isn't
original. He also had a student who became to be known to write one of
the most influential books called Poetics. My favorite was how a good
person is rather boring because they never change anything. This is
generally how I feel in life, being bad as a kid has it perks and was generally,
but no perks as an adult. With all of
these eras explained in the video makes more logical sense with the book
reading in showing how different eras were effected with different forms of
art. In early centuries it started with
writings and drawings on the walls of ancient tombs. Their lives consisted of animals and woman
caring for babies. This was their life
so this is what they drew. This is what
was desirable to them. Then the next era
was of Gods and Goddesses were made to show beauty or power. One era that was very interested when times
started to change is with the wars.
Pictures where made not just of one person or one animal but with many,
in chaotic scenes to show what people went through or even possibly saw. An artist must capture a specific audience in
order to be deemed an artist. A picture
should be able to be dissected by an individual for their own meaning and
reality. Some live through art and
express through art. Others just look at
it and move on. This use to be me, but
now as I look around even in the room I am sitting and see different designs
that were brought into reality by a maker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0TKYxAYGGA
In the Video : Carta
Neurobiology Neurology and Art and Aesthetic will make anyone think differently
about art. This video Changeux and Ramachandran bring a scientific view of
aesthetics to light. Visual perception created reactions in
the human mind. They say not to make realistic art, is not for someone to
deliberately alter or distort the image to produce pleasing effects to the
human brain. Ramachandran says Picasso was deemed a genius for distorting
art he drew! I have never in my life thought of art in either of these
two ways. The changes just seemed of the norm to me, but now reading and
learning of centuries of art and the changes throughout these eras has opened
my eyes. Hey, is that a metaphor? These readings and videos are
opening my eyes to differences and send pleasing and distorted feelings to
myself in regards to all the changes over the years to what art really
is. The first speaker Changeux
didn't really catch my attention due to it was hart to understand the accent, although his fourth definition of how art is a
constant evolution made the most sense to me. It’s like ape to
man. Progress is the norm and we take for granted what we
do in everyday life to life. Now with art it’s not based on
the individuality of the piece but yet on the sometimes comparison of
what can be seen with in the artists piece.
Ramachandran scientific view of aesthetics and art was stimulating and
interesting at the same time. He talked about how perception and judgment in
making a decision in how the art affects our brain with the transmission and
processing of the image in our thoughts.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/15/health/art-brain-mind/index.html?hpt=hp_c3
In the Article What the brain draws from: Art and
neuroscience
Picasso
once said, "We all
know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least
the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby
to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies."
This
is yet another definition of art and its meaning. Every person is different and so are their
views of art. One thing that all three
of these have in common are that the mind controls the outcome of art. The human brain is routed back to what we see
art as. We are wired to decipher our own
pleasures and grotesque feelings of what we see. We make determinations of seeing an object
and what it may resemble or look like.
This meaning was talked about not only in the article but through Ramachandran scientific view.
All three of these materials put oomph
in the reading with the text. It makes
the mind think beyond a picture that was drawn or a statue that was
created. Beauty is linked to our
thinking of art. We all think of art as
supposing to be beautiful but what one person finds appealing and stimulating
another may dislike. Art is life. Art is History. How we remember or interpret past is through
someone else’s eyes. History is Art in
itself in a way. It is replicated and
reenacted to people all over the world in statues, monuments, and films. All of this material we have studied opens my
eyes to seeing the making of art and helps me Appreciate what artist have
created over the centuries. For someone who has never even had any real
understanding of art, these texts has broadened my thoughts and began my wheels
turning in grasping the reason for art and how it has captured our attention
and how it evades our everyday life activities.
War, hatred, love, beauty, chaos, death, life, production, sex,
happiness and sadness are just a brief number of experiences that have been emphasized
through art. It really has so much
meaning and education throughout the centuries that carries on our lively hood
of procreation.
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