Jul 27
- Dissanayake coined the term paleoanthropsychobiological in her article. This term describes art is related to human history closely, and it related to all human societies and it accounts for the fact that art is a psychological or emotional need and has psychological or emotional effects.
- “Making special” appears in page 22 of Dissanayake’s article says “one cares deeply about or activities whose outcome has strong personal significance” Then she talks about the “species-centered” which related with “making special”. Based on the theory modernism, art is a priority value of human with heightened personal experience and then post modernism theory thinks art belongs to everyone. “Making special” also relates to human survival that we make things different from ordinary and used in a good way.
- The first theory is Greek and medieval times. In this period, ordinary people’s views of art are different from the art of artists. Dissanayake also thinks in medieval times, the arts were in the service of religion. “Renaissance artists gradually replaced God-centered with man-centered concerns, but their works continued to portray a recognizable world, whether actual or ideal, and the ‘art’ was in accurately representing that subject matter, using craftsman-like standards of beauty, harmony, and excellence. (p.16) the second theory is modernism which appeared between 18th and 19th century. This theory means ideology and refers art as “aesthetics” which indicates principles such as “taste and beauty that govern all the arts and indeed make them not simply painting or status, but examples of fine art” (P.17) The third theory is postmodernism which appeared in 20th century. This theory challenges the entire “modernist ideology” that art can be the intrinsic of everybody and can be seen anywhere in our daily life. It challenges the aura of religiosity of museum. The theory also indicates that artiest are normal people and without any priority or privilege when viewing objects. Artiest like everybody “interprets art according to their individual and cultural sensibilities” (P.20).
