Aesthetics movie: The key concepts that I learned in this
video is that many different philosophers have many different views on
aesthetics. The study of art started 5th
century Athens. Some philosophers
believed in aesthetics but didn’t like art or didn’t think that there were
aesthetics in art. Foundation for aesthetic
that we use today began during the 18th century in England. Joseph Edison considers marking the beginning
of modern aesthetics theory. Kant main
interest was in the beauty in the art work and how a person felt when they saw
a work of art and many philosophers felt the same way like Hutcheson and Hume. Art has changed gradually and different forms
of art have come and gone. It’s hard to define art and hard to know what art
is. The meaning of art has also changed. The movie also shows how art has changed due
to the technological advances and how they are reproduced.
Carta: the first part of the video talked about the
scientific part of aesthetics of art. Works of art are nonverbal
communication. Aesthetic has a
staggering effect on emotion. Art is in a constant evolution. The second part of the video was
about the science of art and visual aesthetics.
It talked about how people didn’t like realism art but like grotesque art. Ramachandran
has eight universal laws of art which are, Grouping or “binding”, peak shift
principal, contrast, isolating a single cue to optimally excite cortical visual
areas (“attention”), perceptual “ problem solving” , symmetry, abhorrence of
unique vantage points and suspicious coincidences, and art as a metaphor. It shows
how the brain recognizes art and how the brain makes you see it.
Article: key concepts
in the article are artist figuring out how to create depth illusions for people
looking at art. It also talked about
emoticons and how a person know that emotion smiley face symbolizes a smiley
face even though the emoticon is only dots and a symbols. It also talked about
our brain and how it recognizes a color contrast but no light contrast, that's
called "equal luminance," and it creates a sort of shimmering quality.
I think the most interesting part of the article was the part about the famous
and well recognized piece of artwork the Mona Lisa and Da Vinci gave her facial
expression a dynamic quality by playing with a discrepancy that exists in our
peripheral and central vision systems. as
your eyes move around the Mona Lisa's face, her expression appears to change,
she was painted in a way that, looking directly at the mouth, she
appears to smile less than when you're staring into her eyes. When looking away
from the mouth your peripheral visual system picks up shadows from her cheeks
that appear to extend the smile.
2. I feel that Francis Hutcheson theory of aesthetics is
most important because he changed how people thought about aesthetics from
characteristics of the world to the experience of the viewer. This all changed
during the 18th century. Hutcheson said
that we experience pleasure when we look or listen to specific things.
3. Changeux ‘s view on aesthetics on art was very
scientific. He talked a lot about the
brain and evolution of the humans and the brain. Ramachandran view was great he talked about
how there are eight universal laws of art and how sometime art contradicts with
science.
An interesting fact of Changeux was that the discovery of
symmetry by homo erectors 1.5 million years ago. An interesting fact of ramachandran is that he
came up with eight universal laws of art.
4. How do the videos and article relate to the readings in
the text? The videos and the article relate to the readings in the text that
they help put things in perspective and make sense of everything. The videos and the article use scientific
ways that we view art like how we see symmetry as art because the brain thinks it’s
a live like a butterfly. The article also talked about emoticon and how
something like a dot and a symbol can be a smiley face.
5. What is your opinion of the films and article? How do
they add depth to understanding of the topics in your reading in the text? My opinion
on the movie and the article is that the movies were good the added a lot of
information. Changeux was hard to understand so I had to watch his part a few
times. Ramachandran was an amazing lecture he kept me interested. I liked how
he used personal experience with his lectures and made a few jokes in between. They
added depth to the understanding to the text by showing the scientific
understanding on why we like art and how it affects the brain.
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