Category: Assignments

 

The first person:

He is a young man. He looks handsome. He wear a black pants. The pants are loose.  He wear a purple jacket and a blue shirt. He wear a black glass. He  hair is fashion. He wear an earnings. He looks happy.  He looks hurry.I think that he is an Asian boy, maybe Chinese or American born Chinese because his skin is yellow. I think he is about 20 because he looks young. I think he is yellow race. I think that he is like to make up himself because he looks cool. I think that he may not like study because people who are handsome usually do not like study. I think that he is attractive. I think he is rich because his cloth looks delicate . I think He is a fashion person because the cloth which he wear are very fashion. This kind of fashion is typically Asian fashion.I believe that people wearing good cloth means that they want to make up themselves, and usually they are pretty  rich, and want to show themselves. I believe people wear good cloth are not like to study.

 The second person:

She is a young women. She looks very thin. She looks like about 20 years old.  She wear a black glass. She smiled. She wear a grey dress. Her hair looks messy.I think that she is about 20. I think that she is yellow race. I think that she is a Chinese. I think that she is lazy because her hair looks messy. I think that she may be like study because she wear a glasses.I believe that lazy people do not want to settle their hair. I believe people who wear normally are good at study than people who wear good cloth.

The third person:

He is a young man. He looks a little bit fat. He wear dark pants and a brown jacket. He wear a dark blue sweater and a blue shirt. He looks like hurry. He has a yellow hair. He wear a black leather shoes.I think that he is white race. I think that he is an american, but not original, because he did not looks like a traditional american. I think that he is ambitious because the cloth which he wear are very official . I think that he is honest because he is little bit fat. I think that he is little bit hard to communicate because of his face. I think that he is busy and takes a lot of classes because he looks hurry.I believe that people who wear business suit is ambitious. I believe that fat people are more honest. I believe that people who wear dark cloth are more mature.

 

Food as art research

Is food art? Before I read the reading material, I never think about any relationship between food and art. After I read the reading material, I had some understanding about what is art. In my opinion, some kind of food can be viewed as art. However, it should have some conditions. First, the food should contain emotions. Second, the food should look beautiful. Third, the food should taste well. In the article which I read online, it talked about author’s attitude about food as art. He raised a question, whether food can be considered an art form resonates among scholars, practitioners, and aficionados. In his opinion, he thinks that food can be considered as art. He has two points. First, innovation and creativity are included among the traits that are most commonly attributed to a successful chef in the highest spheres of haute cuisine. Chefs are not just craftsmen, they have emotion to cook and want to offer dishes that stimulate and surprise patrons. Second, the contemporary high-end food scene, at least on certain levels, enjoys great prestige and intellectual cachet, at times comparable to other more historically affirmed forms of artistic expression.

According to the article, the author thinks that food is art. First, Chefs are not just craftsmen, but they want to express their emotion or ideas, and want to surprise customers. Second, high –end food chefs enjoys great prestige and intellectual cachet. I agree with this idea. The food they made is totally different from fast food. The food which high-end chefs made is beautiful, delicious, and enjoyable. This kind food definitely is work of art. What is art?  In the reading, the author said that I believe, by considering art in the broadest possible perspective, as a universal need and propensity of the human species (p21). It means that anything fulfill people’s universal need can be considered as art. It does not must be music, painting or traditional work of art. According to this, I think that food can be viewed as art. In my opinion, I think that anything that is beautiful, meaningful, and special is work of art. In this accept, food also can be viewed as art.

In the reading material, food as art, the author thinks that art is something we will react aesthetic. In this point of view, food can be art too. When a delicious food in front of me, I will feel that it is so beautiful. I think that food is kind of visual art. In the other hand, food is other kind of art. People eat food. People watch paintings. People listen to music. They are three kind of enjoying. So I think that food is eating art. When people eat the food, people feel the emotion from the chefs and the message from chefs. Wow, when delicious food was eaten, people always enjoy about it. It just like people enjoy in music. It is same kind of feelings. When we eat the food, we can understand how it is beautiful, and how it is good. The most beautiful moment, it is the moment we eat it. From Ellen Dissanayake’s essay, the author thinks that anything which is special is art. Besides, art has very important meanings to human beings. In the food, customers can feel the important message from chefs. Delicious food or traditional food are very special, and takes a lot of time to cook. This kind of food has history, and contains many people’s effort.

In my opinion, I think that some good food can be viewed as art. For example, Beijing roast duck is work of art. However, it does not mean that all the Beijing roast duck is work of art. Only the Beijing roast duck cooked by the famous chefs in quanjude, a famous traditional restaurant is work of art. The chefs can be viewed as artist, because it need time to train or educate, and need talent. Therefore, it does not mean any kind of food is work of art. Fast food definitely is not work of art. If fast food can be viewed as art, and then computer also can be viewed as art. Fast food only has the functional to fulfill people’s appetite.

 

Works Cited

Tefler, E. (2002). Food as Art. In Neill, A. & Riley, A. (eds.) Arguing About Art: Contemporary Philosophical Debates (2nd ed., Chap. 2). New York, NY: Routledge.become art because of the design may not change with the time goes on.

Dissanayake, E. (1991). What is art for? In K. C. Caroll (Ed.). Keynote adresses 1991 (NAEA Convention), (pp.15-26). Reston, VA: National Art Education Association.

Parasecoli, F. (2013). Is Food Art? Chefs, Creativity, and the Restaurant Business? Retrieved Feb 2, 2014 from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/fabio-parasecoli/food-art_b_3830791.html

 

 

Is food Art? Discussion

I believe that some special food can be art in certain situation. It depends on how people view food, and the definition of art. In the reading, the author wrote that philosopher J. O. Urmsom, he think that art is something we will react aesthetic. As a result, food can be art. Anything is beautiful can be art. Is food beautiful? Different people have different ideas. Sometimes I think that Food is very beautiful, because it looks beautiful.

From Ellen Dissanayake’s essay, the author think that anything which is special is art. Besides, art has very important meanings to human beings. As a result, some food can be art, because sometimes some food is special and may have important meanings to people. For example, the birthday cake has the special meaning for some people. For another example, some dinner may have special meaning for some people, especially, there are many kinds of dinners have different meanings. When the baby born at 100 days, the family should have a big dinner with relatives. When people get married, when people die, when people move in to new house, every time big event happen, people need to invite relatives to have dinner. It depends on the importance of the event, some events may keep some days.

According to my point of view, I don’t think that any food is art. It needs some conditions to become art. First, it should looks beautiful. Second, it should important to people, which can have some special meanings. Third, it may cooked by some famous cook which have special talent.

It is very hard to decide food can be art all the time because with the time goes on, the taste and smell of food will changed, it will hurt the feeling oof aesthetic. Therefore, some design of the food may become art because of the design may not change with the time goes on.

 

Tefler, E. (2002). Food as Art. In Neill, A. & Riley, A. (eds.) Arguing About Art: Contemporary Philosophical Debates (2nd ed., Chap. 2). New York, NY: Routledge.become art because of the design may not change with the time goes on.

Paleoanthropsychobiological is equal to paleo-anthro-psycho-biological. In the reading material, the author explain the world paleoanthropsychobiological. First, that the idea of art encompass all of human society(i.e., as far back as the Palaeolithic; Second, that include all human societies (i.e., anthropological or cross-cultural;And third, that it accounts for the fact that art is psychological or emotional need and has psychological or emotion effects (p15). The term paleoanthropsychobiological was coined by Ellen Dissanayake.

The author said that “Among these tendencies, I claim, is also the behavior or propensity to ‘make special,’ particularly things that one cares deeply about or activities whose outcome has strong personal significance (Page 8). It means that people are trying to make special and which are important for human beings. Those special things are art for human beings. In the reading, the author has the idea that people will survive by doing special things.

In modernism, art as ideology. The author said that this was that there is a special of art- a disinterested attitude that is separate from one’s own personal; interest in the object, its utility, or its social or religious ramifications(p17). People’idea about art changed from religious to personal. In postmodernism, art as interpretation, the author said that a point of view that calls into question two centuries of assumptions about the elite and special nature of art. People’s idea about art changed to nature.

 

Dissanayake, E. (1991). What is art for? In K. C. Caroll (Ed.). Keynote adresses 1991 (NAEA Convention), (pp.15-26). Reston, VA: National Art Education Association.

 

What is art for?

I was totally no idea about what is art for before I read the reading material. After I read, I still confused about what is he trying to address. It explained a lot about the history of the art, and how the “art” changed during the history. At the end of the reading, the author raised some interesting ideas about art for life’s sake. In the reading, the author said that I believe, by considering art in the broadest possible perspective, as a universal need and propensity of the human species (p21). According to my understanding, it means that art is something which human species like, or love. For me, it is true. For example, during a period of time, people like idea or something very much, and then something with that idea would become art. For another example, a movie which people are like to watch, and then it will become art. If most people do not like something which made by people, and then it would never become art. Art express the idea which people strongly agree with, or the society strongly agree with. The author also concluded hat the species-centered view of art I have developed here claims that there is valid and intrinsic association between what humans have always found to be important, and certain ways-called the arts-that they have found to manifest, reinforce, and grasp this importance (p26). It means that art are something are important to human beings and try to manifest, reinforce, and grasp this importance.

For me, I think that anything that is beautiful or special is art. Art is which human beings try to express their emotion. In the current society, people have different idea about the world. More and more activity become art. The author think that art is something which are important to human beings. I think this is why the author try to explain the history of art, and then explain what is art for. To be honest, I do not agree with the idea of the author, art does not to be important to all human beings. It is a little bit hard to explain, I mean anything individual people like which is art. It does not need to be affirmed by other people.

Dissanayake, E. (1991). What is art for? In K. C. Caroll (Ed.). Keynote adresses 1991 (NAEA Convention), (pp.15-26). Reston, VA: National Art Education Association.

1. Health
2. Security
3. Integrity
4. Family
5. Wealth
6. Enjoyment
7. Expertness
8. Friendship
9. Independence
10. Wisdom
11. Loyalty
12. Service
13. Location
14. Power
15. Creativity
16. Leadership
17. Personal Accomplishment
18. Personal Development
19. Prestige
20. Community

 

Today, I got up at 9 o’clock, and watch my phone. I usually want to read news and then got up. I usually will look sports news and finance news and also took a look at my stocks. At 12o’clock, I went to have lunch at a restaurant. I usually did not cook. After that, I went back and look my computer, and watched games online because I like play online games. During that time, I also did some homework. And then I was playing games. At 7 o’clock, I noticed that I need to finish my AAD work and have dinner think that most of my activities represent my values. First, health, I went to have lunch at restaurant, and ordered a vegetarian dish because I have some health problem and I need to eat vegetables. Second, Wealth, I am trying to make some money, so I always watch stocks, and bought some. Third, security, I basically stayed at home all day. Forth, enjoyment, I played games and watched games and news.

 

To be honest, I don’t what kind of value my parents have. I think that health, wealth, family, which they should believe. For family, I think that most Chinese people may have higher standard for that, and my family and me also think this is extremely important for us. Most Chinese children do not live far away from parents when they grow up or organize a new family. Wealth, I think my parents definitely pursued wealth very much.  They did business for a long time and were successful. I think it is location, my parents still live in a small city and have their company in a small town, because they think they should stay in there and it may let them live more comfortable. But I think I can live anywhere in this world. Besides, power, they want some power, but I do not. My goal is to have my career in finance area. However, I have to study and after I graduated, I have to go to my parents’ company to manage. I was studying in finance and invested in stocks.

The author of the reading asked this question: If values are freely chosen personal evaluations and belief, how do we arrive at these evaluations and belief? (p8).The author thinks that there are four basic and two major synthetic mental models, which we use these model to arrive at our personal value. The four basic models are sense experience model, deductive logic model, emotion model, and intuition model. The two major synthetic models are authority model and science.  I’m interested in this content and agree most argument which the author made. It is easy to understand that we use four basic models to believe something. For example, I believe sun is round, because I can see it. It shows that I use sense experience model to believe something. For example, I believe that Starbucks sell coffee in America because Starbucks sell coffee in China. I use deductive logic to believe that. For example, I believe that may parents love me because I feel this is true. I use emotion model to believe. For example, I believe it will rain tomorrow, it shows that I use intuition model to believe. Those examples are my personal examples, and they are not totally arrived by one basic model, usually I will use more than one model to believe something, duo to different things, I may use different model to believe or to build value. For the authority mode, I feel it is very correct. Many of my value were arrive by the authority. For example, I love my country, China, and I will not immigrant to America. It is pretty hard to explain that. I just think that the government or the Chinese society let me to believe that. For the science model, I am a little bit confused. I think that it means that we use hypothesis or experiment to believe something. Duo to my education in China, all students believe that science is truth, and no one can doubt that. Now I believe science may be not true. It is a big change for me, I think it just because America has more freedom, and people can have a lot of values. In China, we are educated to one type of people, people have same or close value, and teachers are always taught us a same value.

For me this book is very helpful and makes me understand many things which I do not understand. However, I believe that Tibet is belong to china, and it is one part of china, and I have to argue that the author. Whatever, like the author said, anyone have bias, and without personal values we cannot live at all (p18). That’s good for us.

 

Lewis, H. (1990). A Question of Values: Six Ways We Make the Personal Choices That Shape Our Lives. Axios Press.