salvador dali's painting

my thoughts on the quality of this painting. by no means am i a qualified art critic but my thoughts are just that. i think dali purposely made the man on the left side of the painting less clear to enhance the skull that the women make because the smaller the image is the easier it is to see the skull instead of the women. and you still can see the man just as clearly as before.

Jusitifiability

yesterday we were discussing the justafiability of different areas of knowing. during that class we were putting the justafiablity of each on a scale of 1 to 10. the classification of ethics for me was difficult to classify. do to the amount of different situations that ethics play apart of. some of the choices you make are easily to justify to everyone. other situations your decision maybe easily justify able to you but are to convey your justification to others around you. that one of the main reasons that ethics is hard to justify the justification of ethics. compared to some of the other ways of knowing.

Art vs. Language

Art is it better at convenance than Language?

This question is a good one. if you really think about it art really is able to put across alot of ideas that are hard to explain. for an example an image of a heart brings to mind the idea of love. love being a very hard thing to describe with words is able to be thought of by a simple thing that most people are able to depict. where language to bring to mind the concept of love you might just say the word but personnally i think art bring out the deeper emotion than the word.
the word might just be toss around in casual conversation. and in doing so loses the meaning and importance as an emotion. then language uses alsorts of complicated metaphors and enuendos that make the word lose it meaning again. so a piece of really good art is better than a thousand words.
In language there are alot of words and different languages some languages are more developed. then there are some that are merely noises strung together. but aren't all languages verbal languages just noises strung together?then there are other forms of language that are used in art. a piece of litature is using both art and language convey with both the artistic interpretation and the literal interpretation. which might be different to different people might i add.



if you just take the time to look at a art piece you'll be able to find a deeper meaning behind almost anything.

painters

in this blog i'll be critiqueing the two images that are below. the first a salvador dali featuring some scantily clad women under a light. that form a skull which i saw first when i saw it on the google page not the women in this picture but at a second glance i noticed that the eye sockets were heads and the teeth were flesh from the women. salvador dali

dali's intent for this image was probably to decieve the unwary observer into seeing the skull or the women but not both at the same time. whoa

the quality of this painting could be debated. but i think it's a good painting because i think it acomplishes what dali wants the image to do.

reponse the first reponse to this image is usually "look a skull wait a minute"


this picture is by willem de kooning called seated woman
intention- i don't know maybe he just wanted to draw a woman sitting or he was bored
quality-well personally i don't think he got much talent as an artist so i don't actually know how he became an known artist.
reponse- well a five year old with the same tool as de kooning could come up with something better.

ART...

art is there really a clear definetion of what is art.

wikipedia says art is the process or product of deliberately and creatively arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions, especially beauty. In its narrow sense, the word art most often refers specifically to the visual arts, including media such as painting, sculpture, and printmaking. However, "the arts" may also encompass a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music and literature. Aesthetics is the branch of philosophy which studies art.

where dictionary.com has 19 different definition varying from

art-the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance

to

a male given name, form of Arthur.

what exactly is art and not well i think art is just anything that has someone that enjoys and appriatiates it and considers it art. too be art because i enjoy football but don't consider it art it isn't art for me but someone else might think it's art so in thier opinion football is art to them.

is this art?

is this art?

ethical reactions

Which theories are relevant to your ethical values and behaviours?

Consequentialism is the theory that a morally right action is one that produces a good outcome, or consequence.most of the time I use this theory to establish whether or not the action I take is the right one or wrong one. then depending on the effect on me and the people around me I decide the apropriate action. so if you when more specificly I use Ethical egoism to make decision that impact me directly.

Ethical Problem

my ethical problem is
A man has been sentenced to prison for armed robbery, and admits guilt for the deed. "But", he argues,"I'll never do anything of the kind again. I'm not insane or a danger to society. I would be happier out of jail than in. My wife depends on me for support and she and the children would be far happier if I were able to be the family breadwinner again. As to the influence on others, almost no one would ever know about it; you can keep the matter out of the newspapers and no one except you will ever know that the crime was committed.Therefore, you should release me" Assuming he is correct, what would you do?

I would sentence this man to 5 years in prison and early parole. this sentence would be to still punish this man for he's wrong doing and hopefully he won't do it again. but if he has done some prior crimes he should get a more severe punishment than if it was his first crime.