Saturday, 29 April 2017

WEEK 4

6/3/2017

Dr. Tan talked about Don Norman on his TED Talk of Emotional Design

The importance of visceral level emotion in daily living

how to learn a new language in very short time?
  • Singing ( Singapore National Anthem, Di Ma Si, Tonari no totoro)
  • Watching movies (Steven Chow's movies, Wong Zi Wa Talk Show)
  • Living in a novel environment (to adapt a new place)
  • Falling in love


8/3/2017

What is aesthetics?
  •  The principles of arts are strongly related to daily living and culture, thus to understand the expression of critique, one must describe the way of life.
  •  It is necessary to study culture and life in order to understand the rules and meaning of terms and phrases used in arts and critique.
What is beauty?

A combination of qualities, such as shape, color, or form that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight.
  •  A combination of qualities that pleases the intellect
  •  Denoting something intended to make someone more attractive
A beautiful or pleasing thing or person, in particular:
  •  a beautiful women
  • an excellent example of something
  • the pleasing or attractive features of something
  • the best aspect or advantage of something
Middle English: from Old French beaute, based on Latin bellus "beautiful, fine"

THE ESSENCE OF BEAUTY

Beauty is
  •  the harmony of form (Classicism)
  •  the attribute of God (Neo-Platonism)
  •  perfection (Rationalism)
  •  happy (Empiricism)
  •  the sense revelation of ideas (German Classical Aesthetics)

REFLEXION TIME

Up to this moment, what do you think aesthetics is?
- aesthetics used to assess art

How would you define aesthetics?
- we need to understand the aesthetics first to understand other thing

How do you feel about aesthetics?
- how I feel about aesthetics is everything around us has its value and its own beautiful and uniqueness


Up to this moment, what do you think beauty is?
- we see beauty when we think it is beautiful

How would you define beauty?
- a happy shape

How do you feel about beauty?
- how I feel about beauty is when I see someone smiling it is a true beauty

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