1. The term paleoanthropsychobiological is coined by Ellen Dissanayake. She used this word to suggest several things. First, the idea of art encompasses all of human history; second, the term included all human societies; third, the term takes the fact that art is a psychological or emotional need and effects into account. She wanted to point out that art contains different conceptions or contradictory ideas.

2. author explained that to “make special in things that one care deeply about or activities whose outcome has strong personal significance” (8). It is not only special, but something has to be extra-ordinary. Human beings tell the different between the ordinary or routine and the extraordinary or unusual in a different way than animals do. Apparently, human beings are way smarter than animal. Our ancestor have made special tools by shaping or elaborating them to keep themselves safe. The phrase “making special” relates to art because the process of making something special is one way of defining and understanding art in different ways. Different “art” is special to different people.

3. “the Romantic Rebellion”(18th Century)

This theory was a reaction to the goods and evil inherent in the great changes of society and its people. “Individualism became possible and people could be freed from tradition, custom and authority, they also became more alienated from their work and from other people” (3).

“the Modernism”(18th Century) Art as ideology.

During this period of time, a subject that came to be called “aesthetics” has been brought to the public. “A concern with elucidating principles such as taste and beauty that govern all the arts and indeed make them not simply paintings or statues” (3). At this point of time, it would be a bit difficult for people to define what art really is.

“the Postmodernism”(20th Century) Art as interpretation.

A assumption that people are able to appreciate and identify artworks. Interpretation of art has become a part of people’s life. “The species-centered view of art combines modernism proclamation that art is of supreme value and a source for heightened personal experience with postmodernism;s insistence that it belongs to everyone and is potential all around us” (8). Therefore, every actions and choices were made by people could be art and went along with the human survival.

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