Goals:
- Consider the origins of art
- Explore a brief history of Western Art
- Examine multiple perspectives for evaluating art
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Paleoanthropsychobiological is coined by Ellen Dissanayake. This is a really strange word to me. I couldn’t understand the meaning of it until I read the definition several times. Paleoanthropsychobiological is refer to art. It has 3 concepts: human history, human societies and human psychological or emotional feelings. Dissanayake try to tell us that art -Paleoanthropsychobiological is human-based and it shows human’s wish and how this wish can change human’s society.
“Making special” shows that individual wants to be unique and everyone has this special wish. According to Dissanayake, “Making special’ is a fundamental human proclivity or need”(Dissanayake 1991). Human want to show their special parts because they want others know they are different, they are unique. And art is also special and unique. The core element is the same. For human survival, it is the same because if you want to live better, you need to be special so that other people will revere you and you will get a better job and possible better future.
There are three methods of art : ideology, interpretation and life’s sake. Ideology for art is an idea from 18th century that people trying to manage the definition of fine art based on people’s “taste and beauty”(Dissanyake 1991). With the time flows, in the mid-twentieth century, people start to define art with “flatness, purity and picture plan”(Dissanyake 1991). Art work can not just be a simple random paining, but it should be an object with patient and carefulness and love. With no feeling for the project, this project can hardly be a fine art work.
Interpretation represents that art can have many forms and arts does not just reflect single kind of knowledge, but it also shows the connection between art and human belief. By that I mean the form of art is not limited by specific rules. Art can be presented in many special ways. Interpretation shows in modernism.
For life’s sake, it is more like a special view of art from each human beings and everyone has their unique setting for art. On the other word, the definition of art can be really different base on different group of people. Everyone has their own special value for art and they want to show others their unique feeling for art. This is the meaning of special and this is why individual can be so different. Since everyone can hardly have a same value of object, people cannot simply accept others’ art.
Reflection:
Before start this assignment, I was worried that I understand about art or not. Ellen Dissanayake really explained very well about what art is. She systematically shows readers that art has three methods. With these methods, art work as different function to server people in daily life. Ellen points out art is a strong wish of every single man. Art is something that is really special and unique for some people and these people want to share art to everyone else around him. To this point, art is more like a special tool that shows one’s value. Maybe art is something not that uncommon to see. We actually see art everywhere. It’s just different people see different work of art based on different values. It is a pretty trick idea but that’s shows art is not something normal people cannot reach.
Goal of future:
By finishing this assignment, I want to know more about what is art and more specifically, what is my art. I want to observe that if my view of art is going to change when my value of things changed. I believe that different has a different view of what art is. This is a another level studying about art. Hope I can find an answer for it.
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Table of contents:
Artifact 1: Life of value.
Artifact 2: Is food an art?
Artifact 3:Observation of people.
Artifact 4: What is Art?
Artifact 5: Horror
Artifact 6: Creative Spirituality
Artifact 7: Technology
Artifact 8: Remixing Culture