Knowledge and Arts packet made me think a lot about how much art is used in the everyday, the amount its been used and how long we’ve been using art as an expression. The packet made me think about how much art and the kind of questions it can bring up, the way people have been using it for centuries and how important it has been for people. The very first page of the packet and the section “The Artists Knowledge and Beauty (aesthetics)” caught my eye and i remembered the most throught the rest of the packet.
Beauty (aesthedics) made alot of sense to me and things i can almost actively see happening. It mentions that western culture always believe that the whole purpose of art was to create beauty, but within the last century that art no longer needs to create beauty to be art. That now we have these disturbing, ugly images in art, strong distored sounds in music and violence, poverty and perversion in literature that are all claiming to be art. While philosophers speciulated on the importance of beauty. How at the “low end” beauty pervides a decoration to make life fell more pleasant and at the “high end the experience of beauty was thought to elivate the soul towards the heights of purity, wisdom and (sometimes) religious exaltation”, (p.1). I do feel like alot of this is the reality and the truth when it comes to art or todays beauty standards onto people.
The packet made me think more about the person who may have been behind the art peice and how not only that art might be pretty but also the meaning, the questions, why they made it with those intentions or storys behind it and the process it may have gone through. How art can come in many ways and how to activly judge someones work and ask related questions and how to judge the value and quality of someones work. I thought a lot about how art seemed simple and was basically like a free block in out day to day but how it takes alot of time, effort and thought into the product.