“paleoanthropsychobiological” is a very long word which combined three important words in the author’s article and can separated as “palaeolithic; anthropological; and psychological.” Ellen Dissanayake coined this term in her book, and those three parts of this term include three ideas that Ellen wants to tell which were “the idea of art encompasses all of human history; it include all human societies; and art is apsychological or emotional need and has psychological or emotional effects.” (p15).
According to Ellen’s article, the phrase “Making special” claimed that “one cares deeply about or activities whose outcome has strong personal significance” (Dissanayake 22). It’s like when people do something ordinary, but make it extra-ordinary. In a word, make something special is to show difference from normal with your talent in an original way. For instance, in this world, most people can draw, some of them can called as “painter”, but only a few people can named “artist”. To human survival, not like the animals, human have their ability by their “intelligence, resourcefulness, emotional and mental complexity. Those special could take a significance in human history than “simply alertness to possible danger” (Dissanayake 22).
According to author’s opinion, she identified three different theories of art that mentions in her essay. First were “Medieval and Renaissance.” However, they were actually two totally separate periods each with it’s own approach to art. The Medieval was 5th century which was “God-Centered” art. And the Renaissance was from 15th Century, and it was a “Man- Centered” art. The second one was “Modernism”, which was about 17th Century, refers to art as ideology and aesthetics. This theory such as“ Art had become if not a religion. An ideology whose principles were articulated by and for the few who had leisure and education enough to acquire them” (Dissanayake 18). The third theory was called “Postmodernism”, came out in 20th Century, Which brought an idea of art as interpretation. It had challenged the “Modernism ideology” and pointed out the art is everywhere during people’s daily life, there is no such a specific definition to what is art. Thus, this theory is like a development and progress of Modernism.
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