EACH NUMBER WILL BE SEPARATE ANSWER, PLEASE FOLLOW DIRECTIONS 1. Watch the video entitled Saul Bass - Why Man Creates - A Parable on YouTube and use this discussion forum to post 2 paragraphs in response to the following topic:Paragraph 1 - From the beginning to the end, explain what happens during the video.Paragraph 2 - Explain what the video tries to communicate about the nature of creativity.2. Watch the videos entitled Embrace the Shake, Artist Chuck Close Writes Letter to Younger Self, and A Mysterious Story of Frida Kahlo that Reveals Her True Character. Use this discussion forum to post two paragraphs in response to the following questions:Paragraph 1 - How do these artists turn their limitations into artistic possibilities?Paragraph 2 - In your opinion, what is the roll of overcoming challenges in the development of an artist's practice?3. Read the text in Chapters 5 and 6. (BELOW HYPERLINK) This assignment focuses on Section 5.3 SOCIO-CULTURAL CONTEXTS and Section 6.3 AESTHETICS. Use this Discussion Forum to post 2 paragraphs in response to the following topic:How do we find meaning in art?Paragraph 1 - From Chapter 5 Sections 3.1 - 3.5 (pages 129 - 140): Discuss how one of the artists from these sections expresses their personal identity through their art.Paragraph 2 - From Chapter 6 Section 6.3: (pages 158 - 160) What is aesthetics and how would you describe your own, personal sense of aesthetics? In your view, what makes something beautiful? Have your life experiences changed your perception of art and beauty?Chpater 5/6file:///Users/east/Downloads/Introduction%20to%20Art-Chapters%205%20and%206%20-%20Beeline.html

Study Guide: Aesthetics and Taste pages 60-66 1. Define and compare the two fundamental concept of value of  Viewer's interpretations are aesthetics  and taste.  What is different about these two concepts of value? 2. How is defiance of status taste a political statement against the classist association of good taste with a high cost?  3. Define the terms Kitsch. How is Kitsch complex in the human memory? How does Kitsch repackage history? How is Kitsch a reflexive parody? 4. How are they repositories about history? How are they recognized as icons of a historical moment? Why are Hierarchies of taste and beauty not fixed and even change according to markets and value? 5. What was American art critic Clement Greenberg talking about in his 1939 essay " Avante-Garde and Kitsch"? Why did art critic Jonathan Jones say that defining the term "Kitsch is like entering a hall of mirrors? 6. What is Bourdieu's theory of social structures? 7. In history of high and low culture  what are the distinctions between them? Create your own list of high and low culture . 8.  How is Bourdieu's model of analysis different from the cultural knowledge referred to as  "cultural capital" of  today? Do you agree or disagree? 9. Why do you think that low and high culture not help us to understand the patterns of minority, immigrant, and counterculture values and distinction?  Reading Images as Ideological Subjects: Pages 74-78 1. What do the authors mean when they state that "our dominant ideologies just look to us like common sense"? 2. What did Karl Marx think and try to understand about "ideology" and the "capitalist-system"? 3. Why did Althusser insist that "ideology cannot be dismissed as a simple distortion of the realities of capitalism"? What was Althusser's term "ideology" and how was his modification crucial to the study of visual culture?  What did he mean by the term imaginary?  According to the text how was his term disempowering? 4. What were the two central aspects of Gramsci's definition of hegmony? How does Antonio Gramsci's term "hegemony and counter hegemony help us to understand how people create and make meaning of images"? 5. How does artist Barbara Kruger's work function as a "counter hegemonic statement"? Who is the "you" named in her work?  Name who or what is involved complex relationship of image making?

First, please watch the 4-episode series titled "Geospatial Revolution." Each episode is approximately 15 minutes long and it should automatically go to the next episode each time you finish an episode. If it does not, you can click on the second link and so on. Please pay particular attention to all the examples that are cited in showing how geospatial technology is used to help people. After watching the videos, please type a 1 page (500 words or more), single-spaced writeup about the videos. Your writeup must follow the following format. A brief summary, then list and explain five examples that are talked about in the videos, and finally a conclusion. The summary, each of the five examples, and the conclusion should be separate paragraphs which is a total of 7 paragraphs. Episode 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poMGRbfgp38 Episode 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXS0bsR0e7wEpisode 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXS0bsR0e7wEpisode 4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F7z9LLYxf8 Note: You are writting just ONE writeup for all the videos combined and not 4 separate writeups.