Video Review Week 2

1.      For both of videos I learned the concept of aesthetics and familiarized myself with the theory.  I am new to the art scene and it is interesting how art and philosophy are related.  I like how the works of art express emotions that the artists have, and how certain works these emotions are more visible to the viewer than others.  I learned that art really affects everything from the way are brain works to how birds and animals reproduce.  Much from the videos were over many head and too much for me to fully understand but I did learn that everything involves art.  I found how art stimulates the brain and the visual system particularly interesting in the you tube video.

2.      I believe the 4th B.C century Plato has the most important theory on aesthetics.  Although the video mentions that he did not have aesthetic view I do believe that he had the concepts of aesthetics.  He was the first philosopher to look at art and set the basis for others to interpret it.  He said “what is beautiful in itself is not this object or that one, but that which conveys their own nature” Plato explained how the true nature of things we see are different than our ideas.  Also those ideas are interpreted through our senses and it is this that creates beauty. 

3.      I think both Changeux and Ramachandran have very prevalent interesting points in terms to how things interact with art.  Changeux seems to rationalize and relate art to a form of science, using philosophical viewpoints and uses logic to explain art.  Ramachandran thinks that art is an idea and is more towards the notion that art is related more to idealism that art is based on ideas rather than science.

4.      The videos seem to relate fairly close to the text.   The themes of art that’s talked about in the videos are similar but not the same as those discussed in the text. 

5.      To be honest the films were over my head after watching them.  I have no prior experience in any art environment and I think even an “art for dummies” perhaps would be hard for me to understand.  After viewing the videos multiple times I grasped the true meaning of us viewing these videos.  Art relates in some form or another to everything that we do in our lives and has a very big role in nature for example birds reproducing.  I never thought about some of the perspectives that art is looked at but after seeing them it defiantly makes sense.