Telvin Harrell: Artistic Perception

The reading stated that we can view scenes in art that would otherwise disgust us in real life.

Art has a way of deminishing the effects of reality. An example of this dulling effect is when someone sees murder scene, other then people who are use to the image, they are taken by shock, emotions of sadness, and fear. But when observed in a movie p.eople are calm when they see the image; content with the graphic content.

I have witness some people who play games so much that when they see a crisis on the news, instead of being concerned with the issues of the current cirsumstance, they are recalling a game they played, and even go as far as saying these crises are cool; ignorant to fact that the report is live and in real time.

While people enjoy art and all of uniqueness some experience a negative side effect.

Telvin Harrell: Art as Redemption

Friedrich Nietzsche view art as an escape of the world. Art he sees as soemthing to makr life, which is terrible, bearable.

Others would agree that yes life can be terrible and is all to often filled with things that are not right and crimes that go unpunished. But some people would disagree that the escape of such a thing is art. Earlier today I was visited by two Jehovah's witnesses in front of my house. The watch tower magazine that I was given asked the question what is the key to a meaningful life; the answer is Jehovah.

Athough nietzsche would disagree wtih the fact that religion could be the key to a meaningful life and the escape of the horrors of reality, being that he is an atheist; is he replacing the religious aspect of his life with Art?

Vincent - Hegel's Aesthetics

I liked Hegel when we first got to know him because of his theory that there is much more going on, and it begins with the sensuous. Eventually that sensuous speaks to our soul because of this endorphin-driven sort of ecstasy where we lose ourselves. I was going to do my original project on hegel and how music is a purely sensual experience that beckons the soul to something greater, but I found it difficult for me to work with just sounds and nothing mental like words or images. I think this sort of sentiment on music and the soul has been held widely for a very long time, so Hegel’s theory could hold true for many people throughout many generations.

Vincent- Heidegger's On the Way to Language

While looking up theories for my final paper I was suggested to look at Heidegger’s book On the Way to Language. It sounded quite complicated to me when I first heard it and indeed it was when I first read it. And the second, third fourth, so on and so forth. I had a lot of problems working through it before I decided it wasn’t for me.  He seemed to  be constructing a theory of language as the very nature of being because of his famous phrase “Language is the house of Being.”  But how can Language be the house of Being? This sort of reading left me with more questions than answers, but perhaps that is for the best.

 

Vincent- Ingenium and Grassi

I really like the lecture we had on Ernesto Grassi and his notion of ingenium, so I read outside of class a little more. His book “The Rhetoric of Philosophy” meshed well with the way I approach things because he Rhetoric is often separated from Philosophy. As a communications major, I felt somewhat obliged to agree with him on this sentiment. He referenced an Italian humanist philosopher named Vico and brought up the idea of ingenium. Ingenium, as I understood it, portrayed the concept that shows how humans learn about and create nature through discovering or seeing something. It is more of a revelation of truth which I found interesting, and perhaps sheds light on the creative process of some poets and artists. 

Vincent- Heidegger

Heidegger sees art as holistically as possible. He believes it is not just the object, but the representation of that object, creator of the object, co creators and everything there. The way I interpret it, in viewing art in this way, it encompasses the spectator much more and shows, in my opinion, a more modern view of art. In the Digital age, sharing is a major part of creation, and therefore to view art as a communal function and process would be accommodating to the nature of sharing in today’s society. I think this theory on art is a useful way for people to see objects of art in a manner they would not typically, that means including all the context, all the creators, and all of the message that comes with it.

Vincent - Nietzsche

Nietzcshe saw art and the quality of an object of art to be subject to the perspective of who ever is in observation.  This conception of art offers a much wider variety of possibilities than some of the others we have seen. In a Nietzcshian understanding, art can be found more commonly because man is then creator and appreciator of art.  I like this sort of thinking because it is more empowering to the population, and most likely encourages more of a widespread expression of art. We are all artists.  This is an idea that I think should be spread more widely and perhaps