Essay Assignment: What is art for ?

1. Dissanayake ‘s  view is that in order to include human history, guam cultures, and human psychology, art viewed as an inherent universal (or biological ) trait of the human species, as normal and natural as language, sex, sociability, aggression, or any of the other characteristics of human nature. Dissanayake created this term.

2.Something is “special ” means it is different from the mundane, the everyday, the ordinary. “make special” particularly things that one cares deeply about or activities whose outcome has strong personal significance. It is not only recognized something is special, but make it special.

3.   Renaissance
 Represents reality in medieval time. From religious art, Renaissance focused on real world and represented accurate portrait of the situation.
       Modernism: Art as Ideology.
18th century thinkers turned their attention to was a subject that came to be called “aesthetics”. The subject developed over the next century. 
      Postmodernism
In the mid-twentieth century, more elaborate and abstract formalist standards were developed in America by critics like Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg in order to justify abstract expressionism. From the modernism art which people have difficult to interpret, postmodernism focused on interpretation of art. In this era, the paintings reflected social issues and lamentation that the artists faced with. The social issues were different in various regions so that the postmodern arts depicted cultural portraits that people can understand and study for the era.

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