Date: Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
Word of the Day: blandishment (BLAN\dish\muhnt); speech or action that tends to flatter or coax, entice, or persuade; allurement, often used in the plural
Weight: two hundred and twenty-four (224) pounds
Goal: lose one hundred (100) pounds in one (1) year duration
Pounds to lose: ninety-two (92) pounds
Waist Size: forty-three (43) inches
Days until Royal Wedding: forty-six (46) days and zero hours
Rowing Duration: fifty-one (51) minutes, fourteen (14) seconds
It seems the big news everywhere is what is happening in Japan. I'm sure engineers and scientists here are arguing over whether or not they should shut down the nuclear plant at Darlington, which is just outside of Toronto.
I remember in the seventies (70s) when the movie, "The China Syndrome" came out, anti-nuclear protests were held everywhere, I'm not sure if anything of consequence happened with the protestations, but I do know that ticket sales of the movie increased. I remember, I saw the movie, "The China Syndrome" at the Odeon Hyland theatre.
My older sister, Yvonne, and her family, which includes her husband, daughter and grandson, are currently on a cruise in the Caribbian. It seems my nephew, (my sister Yvonne's son,) gave his parents and sibling a cruise as a Christmas present. It was very generous and thoughtful of my nephew to do this, too bad my nephew's Uncle, meaning me, couldn't go with them.
It is quite bizarre but I can remember the name of the theatre/cinema wherein I saw a movie, go ahead, name one, and I can name the theatre.
Since I do not have alot on my mind, I've decided to talk a little bit about Art today . Now the subject of Art is quite extensive so I am just going to discuss Art in brevity, beginning first with the definition.
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items (often with symbolic significance) in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect. Art encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music, literature, film, photography, sculpture, and paintings.
The meaning of art is explored in a branch of philosophy known as aesthetics, and even disciplines such as history and psychology analyze its relationship with humans and generations. Traditionally, the term art was used to refer to any skill or mastery. This conception changed during the Romantic period, when art came to be seen as "a special faculty of the human mind to be classified with religion and science".
The nature of art has been described by Wollheim as "one of the most elusive of the traditional problems of human culture". Art has been defined as a vehicle for the expression or communication of emotions and ideas, a means for exploring and appreciating formal elements for their own sake, and as mimesis or representation. Leo Tolstoy identified art as a use of indirect means to communicate from one person to another. Benedetto Croce and R.G. Collingwood advanced the idealist view that art expresses emotions, and that the work of art therefore essentially exists in the mind of the creator.
The theory of art as form has its roots in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, and was developed in the early twentieth century by Roger Fry and Clive Bell. Art as mimesis or representation has deep roots in the philosophy of Aristotle. More recently, thinkers influenced by Martin Heidegger have interpreted art as the means by which a community develops for itself a medium for self-expression and interpretation.
Art can describe several things: a study of creative skill, a process of using the creative skill, a product of the creative skill, or the audience's experience with the creative skill. The creative arts (art as discipline) are a collection of disciplines (arts) that produce artworks (art as objects) that are compelled by a personal drive (art as activity) and echo or reflect a message, mood, or symbolism for the viewer to interpret (art as experience).
Artworks can be defined by purposeful, creative interpretations of limitless concepts or ideas in order to communicate something to another person. Artworks can be explicitly made for this purpose or interpreted on the basis of images or objects. Art is something that stimulates an individual's thoughts, emotions, beliefs, or ideas through the senses. Art is also an expression of an idea and it can take many different forms and serve many different purposes. Although the application of scientific knowledge to derive a new scientific theory involves skill and results in the "creation" of something new, this represents science only and is not categorized as art.
Art can connote a sense of trained ability or mastery of a medium. Art can also simply refer to the developed and efficient use of a language to convey meaning with immediacy and or depth. Art is an act of expressing feelings, thoughts, and observations. There is an understanding that is reached with the material as a result of handling it, which facilitates one's thought processes. A common view is that the epithet "art", particular in its elevated sense, requires a certain level of creative expertise by the artist, whether this be a demonstration of technical ability or an originality in stylistic approach such as in the plays of Shakespeare, or a combination of these two.
Traditionally skill of execution was viewed as a quality inseparable from art and thus necessary for its success; for Leonardo da Vinci, art, neither more nor less than his other endeavors, was a manifestation of skill.
You can read more about Art by googling Art and then reading the Wikipedia's report of it.
Anyway, have a good day and as always, be safe in everything that you do.
Topics coming soon:
Politics
Gable and Lombard
Games
Word of the Day: blandishment (BLAN\dish\muhnt); speech or action that tends to flatter or coax, entice, or persuade; allurement, often used in the plural
Weight: two hundred and twenty-four (224) pounds
Goal: lose one hundred (100) pounds in one (1) year duration
Pounds to lose: ninety-two (92) pounds
Waist Size: forty-three (43) inches
Days until Royal Wedding: forty-six (46) days and zero hours
Rowing Duration: fifty-one (51) minutes, fourteen (14) seconds
It seems the big news everywhere is what is happening in Japan. I'm sure engineers and scientists here are arguing over whether or not they should shut down the nuclear plant at Darlington, which is just outside of Toronto.
I remember in the seventies (70s) when the movie, "The China Syndrome" came out, anti-nuclear protests were held everywhere, I'm not sure if anything of consequence happened with the protestations, but I do know that ticket sales of the movie increased. I remember, I saw the movie, "The China Syndrome" at the Odeon Hyland theatre.
My older sister, Yvonne, and her family, which includes her husband, daughter and grandson, are currently on a cruise in the Caribbian. It seems my nephew, (my sister Yvonne's son,) gave his parents and sibling a cruise as a Christmas present. It was very generous and thoughtful of my nephew to do this, too bad my nephew's Uncle, meaning me, couldn't go with them.
It is quite bizarre but I can remember the name of the theatre/cinema wherein I saw a movie, go ahead, name one, and I can name the theatre.
Since I do not have alot on my mind, I've decided to talk a little bit about Art today . Now the subject of Art is quite extensive so I am just going to discuss Art in brevity, beginning first with the definition.
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items (often with symbolic significance) in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect. Art encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music, literature, film, photography, sculpture, and paintings.
The meaning of art is explored in a branch of philosophy known as aesthetics, and even disciplines such as history and psychology analyze its relationship with humans and generations. Traditionally, the term art was used to refer to any skill or mastery. This conception changed during the Romantic period, when art came to be seen as "a special faculty of the human mind to be classified with religion and science".
The nature of art has been described by Wollheim as "one of the most elusive of the traditional problems of human culture". Art has been defined as a vehicle for the expression or communication of emotions and ideas, a means for exploring and appreciating formal elements for their own sake, and as mimesis or representation. Leo Tolstoy identified art as a use of indirect means to communicate from one person to another. Benedetto Croce and R.G. Collingwood advanced the idealist view that art expresses emotions, and that the work of art therefore essentially exists in the mind of the creator.
The theory of art as form has its roots in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, and was developed in the early twentieth century by Roger Fry and Clive Bell. Art as mimesis or representation has deep roots in the philosophy of Aristotle. More recently, thinkers influenced by Martin Heidegger have interpreted art as the means by which a community develops for itself a medium for self-expression and interpretation.
Art can describe several things: a study of creative skill, a process of using the creative skill, a product of the creative skill, or the audience's experience with the creative skill. The creative arts (art as discipline) are a collection of disciplines (arts) that produce artworks (art as objects) that are compelled by a personal drive (art as activity) and echo or reflect a message, mood, or symbolism for the viewer to interpret (art as experience).
Artworks can be defined by purposeful, creative interpretations of limitless concepts or ideas in order to communicate something to another person. Artworks can be explicitly made for this purpose or interpreted on the basis of images or objects. Art is something that stimulates an individual's thoughts, emotions, beliefs, or ideas through the senses. Art is also an expression of an idea and it can take many different forms and serve many different purposes. Although the application of scientific knowledge to derive a new scientific theory involves skill and results in the "creation" of something new, this represents science only and is not categorized as art.
Art can connote a sense of trained ability or mastery of a medium. Art can also simply refer to the developed and efficient use of a language to convey meaning with immediacy and or depth. Art is an act of expressing feelings, thoughts, and observations. There is an understanding that is reached with the material as a result of handling it, which facilitates one's thought processes. A common view is that the epithet "art", particular in its elevated sense, requires a certain level of creative expertise by the artist, whether this be a demonstration of technical ability or an originality in stylistic approach such as in the plays of Shakespeare, or a combination of these two.
Traditionally skill of execution was viewed as a quality inseparable from art and thus necessary for its success; for Leonardo da Vinci, art, neither more nor less than his other endeavors, was a manifestation of skill.
You can read more about Art by googling Art and then reading the Wikipedia's report of it.
Anyway, have a good day and as always, be safe in everything that you do.
Topics coming soon:
Politics
Gable and Lombard
Games
No comments:
Post a Comment