Module 2-Aesthetics

1.) In the Philosophy of Arts video I learned about the different ways aesthetics can be interpreted and the different ways beauty can be looked at to mean.  I also learned how aesthetics developed and evolved over time and the beginnings of art.  The second video and article taught me the same thing sort of.  They both discussed how our brain interprets art and aesthetics and how we go from visualizing something to our brains interpreting it.

2.) I believe Aristitles (4th Century) theory of aesthetics is important. He looked at beauty in terms of tragedy and unities. The three unities he saw beauty in were time, action and places. He believed beauty could be told in these aspects and through poems. Poems could tell stories which he believed had a beginning, middle, and an end. We follow the same notion today. He saw the entity of action as tragedy representing a single action with no subplots and each action should be a consequence of what happened before. Time should be in a period of no more than a day. And the action should happen in the same place. I feel Aristotles theory of aesthetics is important because we follow the same ideas today and he based his idea of beauty through tragedy which is something everyone can relate to and can be expressed easily.

3.) I thought ach lecture was interesting in how they believe our brains interpret art and tranform visual contexts.

4.) The videos and articles relate to the texts by talking about how artists depict things differently to bring things to life for us.  Artists have a more creativness about them which they use to describe things visually to others to enhance life.

5.) I think the videos added more information than the texts did by giving more information about each philospher which I do not believe the book talked about all of those in the video.  It also was able to show us more images than the book to help us understand each artist and their theory.  The article went more in depth than the book about how our brian interprets art and visuals.