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Hello, Simin, Thanks for your comment. I think fashion is an art from, as well as the handbag which are well designed by artist. When people buy them , they  might use it as decoration rather than an artwork, but what’s the distinction? The same amount of artistic expression goes into clothes, or a painting. Fashion shows what people wear at a certain time, the same as a painting show what people doing in a certain time. Both of them shows the relations between art producer and receiver. Some people may argue that  modern art forms, such as clothes are designed to distinguish from fine art. However, I would say, both of them have the same function of dictating,  people put  a painting on the wall to show their taste and enrich the color of the room, we can see the same function of clothes and handbags. In this point, we can see when people buying fine handbags, they are buying a artwork. If you look at it that way, fine art may go by the wayside, and fashion, which has a bit more effort put into it, will take over.

 

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Hello, Dongjoon, Thanks for your comment. You have brought out a fact that  people gain some values from outside rather than create them by themselves, which is normally happens on everyone. I believe we all have seen some people around us have this kind of values. For example, people have religions, but they are doing what they are not supposed to do. I have asked myself, why they don’t practice what they believe. However, after a while, I realized,  they are not really believe in their religion, even though the definition of religion values is : “religion values are principles founded in religious traditions, texts and beliefs” ( Jains).  Believe and  belief are  strong words, it takes personal understanding rather than just being influenced, however, in most religion family that I have known, the younger generation are born with their religion role in the family, and in the church. They follow what their family follows and value what their family values. Their religion values are gained through influence instead of self discovering. Thats why when they go to college and another environment, they will easily changes their value or stop practicing it. I don’t think this is bad, everyone has this kind of moment in life that we compare personal values and religious-based values and then find out what we really want.

Work Cites

Jains in the world: religious values and ideology in India John E. Cort – Religion – 2001 – 267.

 

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Simin Chen uses Dissanayake’s words to explain the art is different in viewers’ eyes based on their cultural, environmental differences. The example in this post explained people who come from different area in this world would see the world map in different ways. This is understandable, however, people which are more international may see the world map in an other point of view. When Simin related this example to the fact that most people like the same art, such as “Mona Lisa’s smile”, it becomes hard for me to follow.  In fact, most people never see this painting and they never really think about if they love it or not. The fact is most people believe the value of this painting: it is one of the best work of Leonardo da Vinci and he allocated big amount of time in order to complete this artwork. He translated the image in his imagination through the strokes of his brush.  People love this artwork because they appreciate this great artist.  Also, people love it because it cannot be reproduced.  People don’t love the same art, they love fine arts, which are famous, valuable and cannot be reproduced.They have been created primarily for intellectual purposes and judged for its beauty and meaningfulness, specifically, painting, sculpture, and architecture(Rhode). In this case, people with different culture could like same art, however, art is not only includes the fine arts, there are many more type of arts and some of them are totally defined by people’s own preferences.

 

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Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI – MFA in Ceramics, Glass, Jewelry + Metalsmithing, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, Textiles; BFA in Film/Animation/Video, Illustration.

 

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I think you have mentioned one very interesting topic: societal values and personal values. You said that your value are “totally influenced by the pressures of society’s creature, book and education”, which I agree with. Every college student has the same experience, the way we value the GPA and the way we plan our career are all influenced by family, society and the school system,  most people value higher level  degree more than the lower one. Majority people value certain type of jobs more than others. Environment plays a role in who we become and what we value. However, for some other people, they value what interested them more, I think this is what you have said”create a unique path for their lives.”  Here, it is important to understand that society, media and political leaders  exert certain pressures on people to conform to values held by the majority. therefore, it is possible that people hold a value that different with the majority. I also encourage these people to keep this “unique”. However, there is my disagreement, I think everyone has the side that different with the majority, but it is not  as you said, decide by genes. Wray Herbert has mentioned in his article” Genes and values: The Dopamine Connection”: There are no genes for individualism or for social connection — world views are far too complicated for that — but perhaps there is another way that genes are interacting with the world, with culture, to produce individual variation in this perspective.”

 

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“What is Art for?” by Ellen Dissanayake  focus on the topic “art”. Before I read this article, I thought art is an subject and it has different meanings foe every single person in the world. However, Dissanayake thinks that most people have some of these ideas about art: “it encompasses all human history”, “it includes all human societies”, and “it accounts for the fact that art is psychological or emotional need has psychological or emotional  effects ” (p. 15). She then says that art must be viewed as an inherent universal (or biological) trait of the human species”(p.15).  Throughout the history of art,  it was developed as human evolved, it helped human to survive in the past. Arts are also created for religion, for the political purposes. Art is fascinating because it is viewed differently by different viewers, which may come from different culture and tradition. An great art should bring people more questions rather than giving out answers.

Also, art is highly connected to society. There is no known society that dose not  practice at least one kind of art. Dancing style,  decorating the house, language are all a kind of art.  Art is such a large part of our everyday lives that we may hardly even stop to think about it. It is good to have an artistic side for everyone because it bring people joyful, just like music and movies. Even more, art in fashion, people’s shoes and clothes are a kind of art. For example, a Japanese artist designed handbag for women, it sells very high price, is this consider art? I think it could be. the passion about art is one of the reason that people trend to spend more time and money to get a handbag or a furniture that designed by an artist. All functional design, well done, is art.

 Work  Cites

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.

 

 

Right now, I have more than 18 app in my smart phone, some of my friends have even more. Among these apps,  five of them are social media: Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Wechat and Weibo( Chinese version Tweet). If I go to a trip, I may share 2 to 5 pictures on at least two of these social medias. Most of my friends will “like” the pictures. These are totally normal for a college students, rather than being popular in school, work place and society, more young people now also care about how to being popular in social networks. The article  “The social media marketing strategy is only as good as the work you put into it”(Demers)  attracted me with its title, it is more likely be a tip for social median user. There are ten ways to increases the followers in social media. 1. follow people. 2. share people’s content. 3. focus on your  content. 4. leverage google authorship . 5. keep your updates consistent. 6. build Facebook profile. 7. make your social icons prominent on your websites. 8. join Linkedh. 9. use profile in e-mail. 10. build relationship with industry influencers. After I read it, I got all the information to get more followers , but I found out that growing followers requires lots of time and works, for a normal students like me, trying to have lots of followers could kill lots of time, in other words, it will waste lots of time. Also, for focusing on the pictures, the content of one social media, we may need to recreate ourselves, the more time one person spend on their websites, the more followers this person will get. Now, growing followers sounds not as fancy as before. I am telling myself,  maybe spend less time on these networks can bering me more time to rest and do some real readings, however, I don’t know if I can totally change this habit or not. Maybe I should write a blog ” 10 reason we should forget the followers on social media.”

 

 

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According to the article, Human value is complex because it base on  different modes.

Nowadays,  media is also  influence on people’s value. The huge amount of advertisements on TV, newspaper and other median are all use the slandered images, for example, the body images are all fit and beautiful, to influence people’s value of beauty. Women are wearing makeup and thin, men are fit and has muscle, all of these images are telling people : body like these are beautiful. Media creates the standers for body images and people who always see these images would trend to accept the stander. Meanwhile, when they think about “beautiful””health”, the images will come up to their mind. this is the reason why that most women think they are too fat even though their weight are actually normal. This is also the reason that today’s women are all trying to loss weight, some of them are eating disorderly.  The rapid development of media has effected more and more people’s value everyday.

There is a question that the author asks in the article:” If values are freely chosen personal evaluations and believes, How do we arrive at these evaluations and believes?”As the author pointed out: firstly we come out to believe something, it may come from our culture, family, school, which can be classified as four main modes: sense experience, logic, emotions and intuition( Lewis). However,  There are also two important mental modes: Authority and science. In my opinion, the authority and science has important effects on human values. For example, I have a friend Brain, he borne in a Christian family, he went to church during his entry life. His value about life and choices are mostly influenced by his family and what he heard from the  church.  At age 29, he got divorced and he started to question about what he used to believe.  He decided to go back to school to started his two master degree, which were theology and linguistics. After he got the degree of these two majors, he gave up his religion. He started to change his lifestyle and travel more places. Clearly, authority and science could be the factor that changed his value. “Cognitive moral education builds on the belief that students should learn to value things like democracy and justice as their moral reasoning develops “(Santrock).

 Works Cites

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

Santrock, J.W. (2007). A Topical Approach to Life-Span Development. New York, NY