Videos

For the first video on Aesthetics I found it to be very educational.  I never new that the aesthetics of Art had developed in the way of philosophers.  It all started with Plato from the fourth century BC.  He believed that art in itself was a copy of a copy.  Plato said that art was ideas that consisted of no aesthetics. However Aristotle had a different view of art in a somewhat mathematical science.  His ideas where very different from Plato's.  Francis Hutchenson of the 18th century brought about ideas in our soul by beauty and harmony.   His idea of art expressed the meaning of Aesthetics.  But I really connected to Immnnuel Kant ideas of art that through the genus nature sets rules to art.  I also connected to Fricddrich von Schider from the 18th century, He also connected the aesthetics of art can be truly expressed more through education of aesthetics.  Geory Hrgel from the 19th century had a great aesthetic view of art as well by expressing the intuition of the spirit and that beauty is defined as the appearance or the the sensible reflection.  There are more philosophers theory but these are just some to which i connected with or learned something interesting about them.  

For the second video the key concept i learned was the definition of art.  The way the artifacts and human productions are recognized as works of art is very educational to me.  How the professor explained distinct forms of language, nonverbal communication to be a work of art is also very interesting.  I also like how he showed the chauvet and explained that art is a constant evolution.

I liked listening to ramachandran his ideas where educational and humours.  I enjoyed his theory including the eight laws of art however only really agreed with the fact that art is a metaphor.  

Both Changeux and Ramachandran had great scientific views on art i only agreed with certain parts of there lectures.

The videos were very educational and related to the readings of the text book.

I found the videos very interesting in how they express the scientific view of art, they explored a part of realizing the way aesthetics came into play with art. 

In video one John Dewey of the 20th century was a little of base i think by saying "feeling aroused by a work of art are not purely a personal experience but that they must be of a universal nature".  Because are can be a personal experience and not everyone must feel the same way even if it is a historical piece of art.