It is clear that Dix was not accurately depicting Dr. Heinrich Stadelmann as he would appear in life. This raises the question whether Stadelmann would have approved of the finished artwork, and what it was Dix was trying to say. As with any artwork, it is impossible to know where Dix’s interpretation ends and the viewer’s subjective inventiveness begins. Therein lies the effectiveness of art as a combined experience that transcends the intent of the artist. Dix may lay the groundwork through his strategic use of artistic elements, but it is ultimately the observer that builds the
Intro: • I will evaluate that Barthes claim ‘the author is dead’ is correct, and in doing so will discuss the role of intention in responding to, and interpreting, works of art Define intention: • Intentionalism subscribes to the idea that an author creating an artwork has an intended message and intention to create a work of art. The value of this intention, and consequently the value of the author, can be evaluated through considering the intentions’ ability to construct/influence meaning for the responder when examining the artwork. Evaluation that Barthes claim ‘the author is dead’ is correct: • Intention has no role in helping us respond/interpret meaning of art. This is because intention certainly doesn’t reflect the meaning individual responders gain when responding to, and interpreting artworks. Therefore, the artist can be considered irrelevant to the meaning of the art, and the artwork itself.
There is a Form of everything we know. Forms are perfect which means that they are unchanging, eternal and therefore cannot exist in this world. Forms give us knowledge and exist in the Realm of the Forms. Forms must exist because we know things without seeing them or being told what they are. For example there is a form of beauty, which explains why we can all understand and know what beauty is, without the need to be told every time.
“When you're a beautiful person on the inside, there is nothing in the world that can change that about you. Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance. The Lesson: If you can't accept yourself, then certainly no one else will.” In Joan Didion’s essay, with the help of periodic sentences and metaphorical language, she explains that self-respect does not come from others but from within oneself; it cannot be achieved when one is averse to oneself. Didion was looking for outer gratification, but through the ordeal of being rejected, gains the knowledge that self-respect is proper value of one’s character, and learning to love oneself. One can only be truly happy when one learns to accept oneself.
Doubt causes people to believe that you do not know something when you actually do. For example in the passage stated "So today I have expressly rid my mind of all worries and arranged for myself a clear stretch of free time." But, in reality stated by Rene Descartes "but to accomplish this, it will not be necessary for me to show that all my opinions are false, which is something I could perhaps never false, which is something I could perhaps never manage." This conveys to the readers that he does not need to doubt himself from his worries because it all in his mind which means he cannot prove to a soul that he is not worried about anything. Skepticism makes a person questions ideas toward multiple things such as knowledge or opinions that are stated as if it is true like facts.
There are many contradictions in Hume, but there is little agreement on what these contradictions show about Hume's thought in general. The major contradiction Hume makes is how he says that we have to experience something before we can think about it. If that was true, how can one think of a ‘golden mountain’ even though they have never seen one? All of our ideas come from observation, cannot be true. Hume would argue that a ‘golden mountain’ would be a complex idea.
These other objects, in turn, was put into motion by still another object preceding it, and so forth. This series cannot go on backward to infinity, though, since there would otherwise be no first mover and thus no subsequent movement. Therefore, we must conclude that there is a first unmoved mover, which we understand to be God. Second, we observe that everything has an efficient cause and that nothing is or can be the cause of itself. It is impossible, though, that the series of causes should extend back to infinity because every cause is dependent on a prior cause and the ultimate cause is thus dependent on a previous cause.
Avante – Garde Art Postmodern art is a body of art movements that sought to contradict some aspects of modernism or to have emerged or developed in its aftermath. In general, movements such as Intermedia, Installation art, Conceptual Art and Multimedia, particularly involving video are described as postmodern. There are several characteristics which lend art to being postmodern; these include bricolage, the use of words prominentlay as the central artistic element, collage, simplification, appropriation, performance art, the recycling of past styles and themes in a modern-day context, as well as the break-up of the barrier between fine and high arts and low art and popular culture. ------------------------------------------------- The predominant term for art produced since the 1950s is "contemporary art". Not all art labeled as contemporary art is postmodern, and the broader term encompasses both artists who continue to work in modernist and late modernist traditions, as well as artists who reject postmodernism for other reasons.
This question has often been asked, and the boundaries between craft and art are often contested. Is it that art evokes meanings and emotions far beyond what the viewers observe, while craft remains the underlying basis of art? Or is it that a craftsperson is someone who practices their skilled craft, and an artist is someone who cares about their craft, cares how it looks, how it’s presented, if it will inspire and what is its intended purpose. Some believe craft is the use of materials for something practical that has some individuality but limited imagination. As soon as the creativity hits a higher level and the work assumes its own identity, whether it has a function or not, that is when it becomes art.
Cultural Relativism The theory of cultural relativism suggests that there is no absolute right or wrong. Instead, the morals, beliefs and behaviours that vary throughout different cultures must be taken into consideration. This idea is based on the principle that no one culture can define the basics of living for any or all other cultures. People frequently pass judgment about others based on their own cultural standards, this can result in discrimination, prejudice, hurt and/or injury and is the reason why cultural relativism should be avoided at all costs. Franz Boas an early 20th century scientist, introduced the notion of cultural relativism when, in his early years of work, he realised that bias, prejudice and bigotry was becoming a pandemic amongst many anthropologists.