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.

Taking things at face value

to, too,two

my english teacher told me that people get to,too, and two confused...

I found out that some people not all people get confused about the words to and too. but not the word two went writing them down. but if you misuse grammar when talking it is possible to confuse them all with each other.



James classic

Does the Matrix exist theory

Does the Matrix exist theory This theory of the Matrix was created last year in Mr. WYATT's (mr. wyatt is uber) history 20 class with a couple of my friends input.

So if the matrix exists we wouldn't know if it really exist, because anything that is just recalled in your memory may have never happened just programmed into your head. Just like we program computers. The architect is the god or supreme power with the ablility to reset the system give life or take life away. the Architect is only one thing that stays the same in the matrix. the Oracle is another one of the other programs that isn't reset just updated. the mission of the Oracle as stated in the movie is to unbalance the equation. Which the architect is continueally trying to keep to his satisfation. which is neither the perfect world were nothing is wrong and no problems in society or the whole "real world" in complete chaos. Just the happy medium of both. In which he has a good guy and a bad guy. Neo vs Agent Smith one starts off with more power than the other. this is the unbalanced equation then when the equation becomes balanced equal strength and power. the archtect unbalance the equation. this occerance keeps going till the good or bad prevail and become enlightened in thier cause. not absoulte knowledge but pretty close.

we have real life example maybe not to the extreme of neo and agent smith but still with the same principle. Ever protest against something?

From your perpective your neo and you ever your protesting agaist is agent smith. Both fighting for a cause. martin luther king is another.

the matrix takes on the ideas and concepts of plato.

"there is no spoon only the idea of the spoon"

that is plato's phylosophy for the whole world to see.

james classic

Absolute Knowledge

Absolute knowledge, is it possible to achieve?



I don't think it possible even if you could know everything within your time period. because if you could retain that much knowledge you couldn't possibly recall all of it. when you need to recall a specific time date or event or function ,etc. that and knowledge is continueally changing.

Plato VS. Aristotle

Plato, with his philosphy that all concepts of the things we "know" come from a template from another reality.We have knowledge of things before they are acknowledge by our brain's

On the other hand we have Aristotle who claims that we can't know things that we haven't seen or understood.

Physical items for example animals, furniture, etc, Aristotle's philosphy works better than Plato's
Plato 's works for emotions like love, hatred,space, time and other metaphysical concepts.

Plato's theory is used in the matrix's films.

"there is no spoon only the idea of the spoon"

KNOWLEDGE

Do you have knowledge or don't you have knowledge that is the question?



knowledge is power right but what is knowledge. that is what i want to find out.