Module 2

Hello Everyone, welcome back to my blog. 

This week, we are going to discuss about the article and some videos that we had to look at. The videos are titled “Aesthetics: Philosophy of the Arts” in which the narrator tells us different theories of different philosopher regarding art, and “CARTA: Evolutionary origins of Art” which pretty much tells us where the art and aesthetics came from.

By watching these two long videos, I learned many things such as; that all the philosopher believed in different concepts when it came to art, and that art has always been here since millions of years ago.

And the article is called “What the brain draws from: Art and neuroscience” which talks regarding how our brain works in pointing our arts to us. I learned that our brain attracts us to things that looks nice and different. Faces in art, shadows and mirrors.    

From the video “Aesthetics: Philosophy of the Arts”, I feel Battista Alberti Leon’s theory is most important. He was an Italian architect, and Artist during Renaissance era and he believed that beauty is harmony and perfection. He said that beauty comes from accepting aesthetic law.

Changeux and Ramachandran's scientific view of aesthetics and art were both very fascinating. An interesting fact from Changeux's lectures was the Discovery of Art Structure about the humans. He says that humans are relevant to art.

Ramachandran's lecture was very interesting too and it had lots of informations. He said "works of art have such an effect on the human mind" which I found interesting because it is amazing how a little piece of art could do to our brain.  

The videos and article relate to the readings in the text in many ways. The videos and article talk about different theory regarding art, aesthetic, science, human’s mind and different viewpoints of philosophers. The text describes the artworks of different artists in the different era. They all relate to the reading in the text as they all refer to where art came from. 

I am going to be honest about the length of the films. They were long but interesting. The article was amazing and also long. It had lots of different viewpoints and so much information regarding art and aesthetics. They added depth to my understanding of the topics because the videos, article and the reading made me understand art in a different and better way.

Goodbye😃