Video Review

1. For each video and article list/discuss the key concepts you learned.

Key concepts from Aesthetics: Philosophy of the Arts: 

Aesthetics is the philosophical study of beauty and art

 Three Unities 

Aristotle's Poetics

The origin of beauty and good is God 

Hutcheson

Beauty should be based on feelings, no exact science on beauty

Kant 

Art makes us more human, nature sets rules to guide art

Schiller

Romanticism 

Hegel 

Leo Tolstoy- Expression Theory & R.G. Collingwood

Morris Weitz- Role of Theory in Aesthetics 

Key Points on CARTA:

Discovery of Symmetry- Homo erectus 1.5 million years (my) ago

Discovery of Symbolism- Homo heidelbergensis 300,000 years ago

Human brain evolving

Processing images

Conscious reading vs. non conscious readings

Novelty

Consensus partium

Symmetry vs aesthetics 

Empathy

Neuro Statics 

Eight Laws of Art

2. Which philosopher's theroy on aesthetics do you feel is most important? Be sure to mention the philosphers name, era (time in history), and contribution to the aesthetic theory in your response. 

I think Leo Tolstoy's and R.G. Collingwood's Expression Theory in 1938 is the most important. The Expression Theory states that art is the expression of emotion, with expression and emotion defined in ways that are particular to the theory. (20th century) This makes the most sense because art now is mainly about expression and emotions. Artists want you to feel something when looking at their work. 

3. What do you think about Changeux and Ramachandran scientific view of aesthetics and art? What was the most interesting fact you discovered from each speakers lecture? 

I thought this video was hard to understand but had good information. I thought the most interesting part was how Ramachandran said art starts in the brain and how the brain responds to art. I also believe this to be true because that's where creativity begins. Our brains can interpret art work differently than other brains. This video was more interesting than the first, and it had a lot of example within it of aesthetics and the laws of art. 

4. How do the videos and article relate to the readings in the text? 

The videos and article relate to the readings in the text by talking about topics that were in the book in more depth, like aesthetics. Aesthetics were a main topic in the first chapters of the book. Aesthetics is the study of beauty and art. The videos along with the textbook give many examples of this type of art and theories on aesthetics.  

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?

The films were pretty slow, and uninteresting. The CARTA video was very hard for me to understand even with the captions being on. The article was the most interesting part of this weeks assignments. But, they give a lot more examples than the text does so it helps to have more examples of artists and images to relate to certain words or types of arts.