...Course: Creative Activities Section: IT2 Assignment: Establishing Guidelines for an Aesthetics Environment Aesthetics is an appreciation for beauty and a feeling of wonder. The purpose of aesthetics experience for children is to help them develop full and rich lives. (Mayeski) A highly functional, aesthetically attractive, age appropriate environment give children opportunities to challenge themselves through seeing, touching, feeling and moving. The environment in the classroom can make a big difference in children’s success in child care and later and should include aesthetically pleasing items to enhance their world. Infants & toddlers spend much of their time on the floor so for texture, comfort and safety, most of the flooring should be carpeted with low-pile, neutral-color carpeting. Bright primary colors can create an environment that feels over-stimulating to children whereas lighter colored background such as light blue walls and pastel yellow ceiling create a calming atmosphere. The colorful children’s art work that is displayed throughout the classroom with the child’s name, just below their creation will stand out on a light background and allowing the children to focus on their masterpieces. Their artwork should be displayed at eye level and changed frequently, so the children do not loose interest. Also displayed are colorful paintings from famous artists such as Claude Monet. The creative art area incorporates a large window to provide natural lighting...
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...10/20/07 PL20-2948 Professor Fellenz Assignment #2 Aesthetic Theory What in fact is the nature of art? Is aesthetic experience more abstract and subjective or does it possess elements of tangibility? Is art something that a healthy human population could live without or is it an integral part of our moral fiber? They say necessity is the mother of invention. It is apparent over the course of human history that as our capacity for knowledge expanded, so did our need for different avenues of expression. Most people say art imitates life. Oscar Wilde was wise enough to see that after a while, life begins to imitate art. So which is more important to the other? Art to life or life to art? Logically art would never have existed without the human catalyst. That concept is easy enough to understand. It is a little bit more difficult for us to be able to see how far human beings have come because of art, as well as how various artistic mediums can speak volumes about us as a people and society. Art is extremely important when considering things such as this. In a way it is like the chicken or the egg debate. Do the things we own (or create) end up owning (or creating) us? Or do we, in all of our cognitive glory, have total control? Artists can portray this delicate relationship in a way that would otherwise be blurry. Art is special is this kind of debate because almost all forms...
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...examine and briefly describe Aesthetic theory as part of visual communication, as well as the three different disciplines used to study it namely philosophical, scientific and artistic. A visual example from the Destiny video game, has been selected to be examined and related to the theory of aesthetics. 2. AESTHETICS THEORY 2.1 Aesthetic Theory According to The Handbook of Visual Communication, Aesthetics theory tries to describe why we as human beings find appeal in specific visual shapes and configurations. In essence it asks the question, what is beauty? It therefor attempts to determine why we find certain things beautiful (Dake 2005:3). Beauty is something that affects us on a deep emotional and psychological level; therefore aesthetics is a crucial and fundamental part of visual communication. The three approaches – philosophy, science and art, have been used to understand and study Aesthetic 1 theory. However visual art gives us the most thorough and complete definition and understanding of the theory (Dake 2005:3). The philosophical branch is the oldest discipline from which Aesthetic theory is studied. This discipline uses rational thought –arguments supplemented with theories and hypotheses, to try and illustrate what beauty is. It is criticized for using written words to try and define the concept of aesthetics when aesthetics itself comes to being only through visual mediums (Dake 2005:4). The second discipline, through which aesthetics is studied, is art. More...
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...the beholder” is the phrase that is often heard when discussing the topic of attractiveness but is this true? Does beauty really depend on who is looking? Beauty or aesthetics are often looked at in reference to artwork. Aesthetic means to be “concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty; also the philosophical theory or set of principles governing the idea of beauty at a given time and place (dictionary.com).” These words will be used interchangeably throughout this paper. There are many different opinions on what aesthetic qualities allow a painting to be considered beautiful. Some of these qualities are balance, rhythm, emphasis, proportion, sequence and repetition (Clair, 1939). Another article by Chen (????), measured what participants looked at when deciding whether or not a painting is beautiful and the frequent factors were meaning, brushstroke, style, shape, perspective, mood, originality, balance, and unity. An exhibition at the Birchfield Penny Art Center displays many of Charles Birchfield’s famous artwork and with every second Friday being free to students, it’s no wonder visiting the museum is such a great past time. Currently, the museum is showing two exhibits about Charles Birchfield: A Resounding Roar and Audio Graphics. One of my favorite pieces “New Moon,” displays some debatable aesthetic qualities.. This is one of Birchfield’s...
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...The Aesthetic Pleasure of Art: The Elements of Art 1. Line- Can be endless, diagonal, horizontal, thick, thin, way or straight. A line is made using a writing tool such as a marker, crayon or pencil. 2. Space- The distance around, above, below, between and inside of things. 3. Value- The lightness or darkness of an object or color. 4. Texture- How the object (art) looks or feels. 5. Shape- Natural or geometric. Can also be the length or height of an object. 6. Form- The depth, width and length of an object. 7. Color- Random, complimentary and/or primary. Colors are shown based on how natural light reflects off of a particular object. The Principles of Art 1. Unity- Unity is accomplished by making the work feel complete. 2. Balance- Elements are put into place so that one part doesn’t overshadow the other parts. 3. Variety- Different shapes, colors and lines makes the artwork interesting. 4. Harmony- Makes the artwork interesting and enjoyable when all of the shapes, patters, colors and textures are in harmony. 5. Proportion- Art based objects should be scaled and have sized relations to fit the art properly. 6. Rhythm- The repetition of colors, lines, and shapes that makes or creates the feeling of movement. 7. Emphasis- Guides the viewer’s eyes to the most important part of the artwork. Methods for Teaching Art Appreciation One method for teaching art appreciation is to integrate art into mathematics. One way to do this...
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...Throughout years there have been numerous discontents among men. It is believed that one of the biggest discontents is the aesthetic discontent . In the past men have always criticized their art as being inferior to the past , but in the 19th century they realized that this inferiority was a shame to their generation and it was affecting the whole society . The problem with 19th century was that, even thought that generation was the stronger, creative and more powerful than the previous one, they built without emotion . They could make things that no one made before, but they were not capable of expressing what they felt with they work. Their work was either meaningless, dull, or it was expressive to the point it was better to not be expressed...
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...April 17th, 2016 Kierkgaard’s “3 Stages of Life (Aesthetic, Ethical and Religious) Soren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) emphasizes the stages of life’s way which includes aesthetic, ethical and religious. It is essentially stated that all persons pass through the three stages to come into themselves. However, the idea of aesthetics, ethical and religious matters does not always coincide with one another. These things all potentially hold different characteristics and are developed differently in each individual. Nonetheless, they will essentially conflict with one another as Kierkegaard describes their stages in a fictitious manner. Kierkegaard makes it rather intense to give his own particular standpoint on the stages of life, and he does not decree answers. On the other hand, he encourages individuals to make their own conclusions. My theory is that the stages on life’s way including aesthetics, ethical and religious stages are the infinite developments on life’s way for all individuals. However, these stages are not emphasized to have had chronological order. They are uniquely criticized differently as they all are developments of life’s way. These three stages were composed for everyone to analyze and evaluate their own situations distinctively. The answer to the three stages of life does imply the individual interpretation on particular stages rather than someone else’s interpretation. In theory, the uniqueness of aesthetics, ethical, and religious stages are that they are developed...
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...Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty, art, and the creation and appreciation of beauty. Francisco de Goya’s art work of “The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters” is an example of aesthetics. Dreams are defined as a series of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that occur involuntary in the mind during certain stages of sleep. Frequently dreams are said to portray events and images that are highly unlikely to occur in physical reality. In Francisco de Goya's portrayal in his art “The Sleep (or dream) of Reason Produces Monsters” he expresses a rare yet common type of dream commonly referred to as a nightmare. Nightmares consist of the same traits and qualities of regular and more common dreams but are filled with frightening thoughts, feelings, and/or images. In this print Goya expresses his fears of the society surrounding him he feels is unwilling to change for the better. Goya mockingly expresses his fears by perhaps portraying the society as the demonized bats, owls and the craze eyed lynx that linger and swarm behind him. The Sleep of Reason Produces Monster is a work of art created by Franciso de Goya. The art is a self-portrait of de Goya. His head is face down, asleep amid his drawing tools, while owls and bats menacingly surround him. At his feet a lynx sits motionless, alert, and staring. The owls, symbols of folly, and bats, symbols of ignorance, are poised to attack the artist. Also, the bats, bloodsucking creatures of...
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...Aesthetics: The product that I am designing will be a fairy-tale film suitable for children and teenagers, I will also be doing cinema tickets to go along with the design of my product. I will be using bright colours to capture the attention of my target audience. Seeing pasted fairy-tales has inspired me by giving me a guide on what my target audience may like or dislike. Customers: the product that I’m designing is aimed at my target audience which are teenagers and children. The product will be used in the cinema where my target audience can get a good view of the product. They will use the cinema tickets to get into the cinema to see the film of their choice. The product will attract customers by the use of colours and the design of the characters. The age range of my product is ages 6-16, the product will add value because of the material of the tickets. Environment: the impact of my product on the environment is that it can be recycled after being used, it will be environmentally friendly to the environment. It does not cause pollution to the environment when be manufactured. It does require a lot of energy because it easy to produce. Safety: the safety issue that I have consider are making the tickets easy to handle and smooth without causing damage to hands. The only shape edges on the my product will be on the cinema tickets but I will make it is not too sharp to cause damage. The scale for my display will be flat packed and easy to be transport and will not affect...
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...Table of Contents: An introduction: What does “product quality” really mean? 2 Understanding consumers’ perspective 2 * a) Intrinsic cues 4 * b) Extrinsic cues 4 * c) Appearance cues 4 * d) Performance cues 4 The role of aesthetics in apparel products 5 * 3.1 The sensory dimension of the aesthetic experience 5 * 3.2 The emotional dimension of the aesthetic experience 5 * 3.3 The cognitive dimension of the aesthetic experience 5 Conclusion 6 References 7 1. An introduction: What does “product quality” really mean? The Oxford Dictionary defines quality as “The standard of something as measured against other things of a similar kind; the degree of excellence of something; General excellence of standard or level. Many manufacturers use quality as a way to extinguish themselves from their competitors’ products.” It is very important to differentiate between intrinsic- and extrinsic properties of clothes. Intrinsic properties are the fit and feel of the clothing item and the ability to use it for multiple wearing. It also includes the chemical and physical properties of the clothing (Kincade & Gibson; 2010:78). The extrinsic properties are how the product appears to the consumer end their feeling of wealth, luxury and status. Most of the time this includes the brand names, price and store where the items are bought (Kincade & Gibson; 2010:78). 2. Understanding consumers’ perspective: Consumers have different ways of interpreting...
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...Claire Hua 14300120165 April 21, 2016 Transformation of Literary Criticism Ronan McDonald, a lecturer in literature at the University of Reading, has written a book named “The Death of the Critic”, in which he described how the role of the literary critic has changed over the centuries, ultimately leading to "death" in the latter half of the 20th century. Nevertheless, to proclaim the death of the critic at this moment is still too early. What deserves more attention than this exaggerated title is the fact of decline of criticism. Literary criticism has always been viewed as an ivory tower in the eyes of the common people, mainly due to its professionalization. Certainly there are peaks in artistic creativity and troughs. In a period of increasing literary creativity, as T.S. Eliot famously said, the old works are seen in a new light. We are now rather in a trough of literary creativity, probably not only because the rise of varieties of competing media, but that less exciting work was generated for literary critics to start a literary revolution. That also means the present literary criticism needs to complete an operation performed by the best “doctors” and go through a major transformation. To be sure, literary criticism is not all negative. “Critic” is etymologically related to “criteria”, so the job of a literary critic is a judge, not a denouncer. The essence of literary criticism is therefore to evaluate. But there remain two problems when it comes to evaluation. Firstly...
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...“…Although the play takes place within the Black community, the themes of alcoholism, parental abuse, and self abuse are universal themes and that is the author’s intent— to show universality. -Dael Orlandersmith, Playwright of “Yellowman” In Mikell Pinkney’s On the Historical Development of African American Dramatic Theory; or, The Roots of Black Theatre Aesthetics, the reader is introduced to the dramaturgical criteria for “serious” African American theatre which is that it is: about us, by us, for us, and near us. These four tenants were introduced by W.E.B. Dubois and used to assess dramatic pageants of his time and have steadily been used as a basis for African American modern text. Dael Orlandersmith’s Yellowman, a two person play which investigates the corrosive prejudices within the Black community, lends itself to universal understanding of Black Americans who are conscious of their African existence before they were deemed African-Americans. Through Orlandersmith’s expressive telling of the South Carolina Gullah/Geechie culture, the play adheres to W.E.B DuBois criteria of African American drama while also offering the viewer a full understanding of prejudices understood universally no matter their race or creed. According to Pinkney, “From the earliest portrayals of Blacks in American theatre (ca. late 18th Century) through the development and institutionalization of the minstrel show (ca. early 20th Century), the Negro image was given little if any...
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...situati2on of the scientific landscape followed by how these landscape was then being interpreted as symbol or metaphor. In the early-nineteenth-century, outwardly, geographers adopted landscape photography as a mean to produce and reflect scientific precision geography images of the objective world. It was when people started accepting photographs as the only authentic reproduction of visible reality, a sustainable visual appropriation that could be disseminated among a population far broader than an aesthetic landscape painting could have addressed. Nevertheless, these images had later become more about social and cultural meaning than simply describing numerical geography or demographics within thin geographical literature. In the late-twentieth-century, for the arising topographic photography, related photographers like Joe Deal, John Schott, Stephen Shore etc., had conveyed substantial amounts of visual information through their works, which claimed to be produced by aesthetic arrangement intentionally instead of any cultural meaning. Nonetheless, the surface details of these captured landscape form, though captioned according to a laconic place-and-date titling formula, these topographic landscape could still be charged with meanings that derive from those photographers’ gender, class, race and personal histories, that transmitted to the audiences with their own social and psychic predispositions even without any superfluous referencing or statement. The development of these...
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...and promote his or her own individuality and subjective understanding of reality in a fancy way that has nothing to do with the psyche of aesthetic. Art is becoming much of a personal media of artist instead of representation of seeking beauty in physical or philosophical terms. For example, Pollock promotes a sense of recklessness in a world with massive wars; his personal understanding of world is valuable but not the art works. However, Vitruvian Man of Da Vinci bears its own value independent of the man who made it. Beside, art or being and artists includes a certain amount of privliage; it is true that barriers of participation to art is high but communicating that everybody is great and special and eventually reproducing the idea that real art is beyond human is a structural hypocrisy. Hence, performance arts went down from ballet or theatre to Marina Abramovic who does not perform but processes experience and creates participation to art. Moreover, established system crushes people just the right amount so that some of the artistic people use their capabilities to rebel and nothing more. Regardless of individual effort art as we know it will cease to exist. Though reasons can create a remarkable list, they can be categorized in under three major titles; loss of aesthetics, loss of craft and economy of rewards in arts. Loss of aesthetics is a necessary evil that post-modernism and liberal societies bring along. First and utmost cause of...
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...(repeat, double-spaced), with 10-12 font size. Be sure to write your NAME and ID number in your paper. 1. Differentiate between: a. Ethics and Aesthetics Ethics constitutes the difference between right and wrong.Ethics are usually more broad and informal than laws, they are usually taught in ones childhood. Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy that emphasizes on the beautiful and the ugly. It can be defined as the study of the mind and emotions in relation to the sense of beauty. b. the rationalist and the empiricist (at least 3 differences) A rationalist may study the principles of philosophy, theology, and architecture. An empiricist relies on observation, experiment, and conclusions. c. metaphysics from epistemology Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that treats principles. It also includes ontology and cosmology, and is connected with epistemology. Epistemology is the search for knowledge, validity, and methods. d. Axiology and ethics Axiology is the study of value. It is to research the nature, criteria, and metaphysical status of value. Ethics differs from the study of value given that it relies on what is right and wrong. Each individuals ethics will differ. Whereas Axiology is the current status of a particular value. e. Axiology and Aesthetics Axiology and Aesthetics can be confused easily. Aesthetics focuses on the beauty of something, whereas Axiology focuses on the value of that opinion. 2. Explain “what philosophy is” by discussing each of...
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