1. In this article, the author Ellen Dissanayake coined this term of palaeoanthropsychobiological. She said in her article, palaeoanthropsychobiological arises from an unfamiliar perspective. She also gives us 3 point of that. First, art encompasses all of human history. Second, it includes all human societies. Third, that it accounts for the fact that art is a psychological or emotional need and has psychological or emotional effects. She also mention that art must be viewed as an inherent universal (or biological) trait of the human species. (page 15).
2. In this article, Ellen said that “The species-centered view of a combines modalism’s proclamation that art is of supreme value and a source for heightened personal experience with post modalism’s insistence that it belongs to everyone and is potentially all around us. It does this by thinking of art making and experiencing as a human behavior.”(p.22) From this sentence, I realize that the author try to define art is related with people’s life. Art is everywhere, and I think “making special” is a reflection of people’s opinion of art. From her article we know that people try to make things special. This means that people have their own opinion that how to express art. This is the progress of art. People also like beautiful things. The realization of art is clearer and clearer from people’s behavior.
3. In page 16, she said in the medieval times, and it is the period of Renaissance, artists replace God-centered with man-centered concems. The second period is modernism. Like she said “This was that there is a special frame of mind for appreciating works of art- a “disinterested” attitude that is separate from one’s own personal interest in the object. Its utility or its social or religious ramifications.” This is the progress that people how to appreciate an artwork. The third period is postmodernism, “the assumption that interpretation is indispensable to appreciating and even identifying artworks”. “To claim that one can appreciate works from alien cultures is an imperialistic act of appropriation- molding them to one’s own standards while blatantly dismissing or ignoring that standards of their makers and users.” This period, people improve the appreciation of art to another high level.

What is art? This should be a very difficult question to people. When people mention art, the definition of it is very broad. No one has an exact definition for it.  Art exists everywhere in people’s life. It depends on how you identify art. We can say that an apple is an art. The house we live is an art. Also music is an art. Art should be discovered by people’s senses. Different people have different feeling about art. Some people think that is an art, but some people do not think so. If some people say something is an art, then this thing is an art.

In this article, this author shows us her experience of art. She connects the art of west and the art of east. The way that people express art is different in different century or time period. The sign of art is different. The first art is express in the religion. The thing that art express changed from god to men. I think art is just the way that people to express their emotion. People have different emotion or though in different periods. They art that people created based on the thing that happened at that time.

There is a sentence in this article, I highly agree with is “Implicit in this account is a recognition that what is said (or written) about a work is not only necessary to its being art, but is indeed perhaps more important than the work itself. There is no appreciation of art without interpretation.” Every art is a media that transmit information to people. The appearance for an art is the most important thing, but the information that could express means more for itself. The art could give the solid thing life, and make it more valuable. Why people always keep the old painting or picture? Why Vinci’s art could sell million bucks? Why people always play Beethoven’s music? They are all products of human. These things are the symbols of a time period. They are all express something that people could not see in their vision. Only thing you can do is feel them with your heart.