Philosophy of the arts.
-this video shows
the evolution of what art was thought of in society and how the very thought of
art itself changed throughout time.
Important people
that I noticed in the film were
Kant 18th century
I believe was important because he believed that art was subjective and that it
was not objective. He thought that beauty is in the eye of the beholder
John Dewey 1934s suggested
that aesthetics is linked completely to society as a whole helps to make the
life of the people.
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Jean-Pierre
Changeux
Works of art = artifacts human productions specialized for inter-subjective communication
that user symbolic forms genetically and epigenetically encoded.
Art is distinct
from language nonverbal communication of emotional states, knowledge,
experience.
Vilayanur Ramachandran
Art transcends
culture. Art is very different because vision is a very complicated process and
there are ways of people process information which causes it to become
subjective. Although the artist may have an idea in mind when he/she makes
their piece of art, another person may see something completely different. Without
this phenomena there would be no art.
Laws of aesthetics
Grouping or binding- the brain force you to be drawn to
grouping causing the brain to try and create something from these groups. It taps
into a basic part of the brain to defeat camouflage.
Peak shift principal- it is when you take something common
among us and exaggerate it. For example if you take the red spot on the end of
the mother bird’s beak which lets the chicks know that it is time for food and exaggerate
it the chicks get even more excited.
Isolating a single cue to optimally
excite cortical visual areas (“Attention”) - taking the minimalist approach to be will bring attention
to what you’re trying to bring attention to.
Perceptual ‘problem solving’- the act of searching for meaning is
better than when you don’t have to. This taps into a primal instinct of when we
were chasing for food it would excite our senses and cause more reward when
completed.
Symmetry- symmetry is very basic instinct that
tells our brain to arouse the senses because something is there and it needs to
be determined if it is good or bad. Evaluation artist exploit this now because symmetry
draws people in because the brain connections are already there. That being
said there is also the advantage of having non symmetrical pieces of art. This causes
people to expect there to be symmetry and when there isn’t it sticks out.
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CNN Article
The article was informative
in that I shows the actual science behind something that seems somewhat simple
to me. I didn't realize that just looking at something causes this chain
reaction of events to happen in my head. After reading it makes complete sense
to me now. For instance I realize why when I look at a picture that obviously
has lines around the objects to define them still makes me think of something
as realistic looking. If you like science which I do this article is very informative.
Article/Videos and Book
These videos and
article help support the book and its information. To be honest I watched the
videos and read the article first before reading the book and it help change
the way I was looking at the pictures or panting or sculptures. I found myself
asking question like, why was there no symmetry in this painting? Well it could
have been that the artist wanted to draw attention to a particular part of the
work and knew from the way he felt (but maybe not been able to scientifically prove
it) that it made him focus on this particular part for that reason. I am a
person who favors science and have a logical brain, I like to know that there
is a reason for someone doing something and not just because. I want to break
it down into the granular parts and figure out if it was just because then why
was it just because. Some of the philosophers help me with this realizing that
society has a direct effect on the art of the time.
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The one thing that stuck out to me more
than any other statement.
Art is distinct
from language = nonverbal communication of emotional states, knowledge,
experience. – Jean-Pierre Changeux
This made me think. It was interesting to think of it that
way. I mean it is an obvious statement really but I never thought about it in
that perspective. To me it is awesome that we can look at something that was
created in a foreign land at an ancient time and know what people were
thinking. This piggybacks on the theory that emotions are universal and it is a
pretty cool concept.
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