Art Communication

Question 1

What is the main issue being explored in art as communication?

Answer 1

why do we make art?

Question 2

traditional definition of art

Answer 2

the expression or application oof human creative skill and imagination

Question 3

aesthetics

Answer 3

a set of principles concerned with nature and appreciation of beauty

Question 4

ostension

Answer 4

the quality in some behavior that makes it apparent to an intended audeince that the behavior is an act of communication

framed in a way to make you think I’m communicating something

e.g. finding a grocery list with flowers on the list and framing it– labeling it as art – what do the flowers mean and what is being communicated

Question 6

According to Noel Carroll, what is the purpose of art?

Answer 6

it communicates tribal affiliation and has the capacity to promote social cohesion among groups (aligns with adaptation theory)

suggests that art is functional

e.g. Haka war dance

Question 7

Art as adaptation

Answer 7

art is an adaptive mechanism that allows is to form connections with triber members and build trust, which aids our chances of surivival and reproduction

e.g. fiction writing allows to access alternate perspectives and navigate social worlds we would otherwise be unfamiliar with, therefore allowing us to adapt and survive

Question 8

Art as byproduct

Answer 8

art is a byproduct of a random mutations that doesn’t help or hurt us

e.g. perhaps the ability to hear music is only a byproduct that results from the evolved process of sterosound perception, which was for hunting or evading predators

Question 8

4 possible theories for art

Answer 8

1. aesthetics
2. act of communication (ostension)
3. art as community (adaptation
4. evolutionary adaptive (byproduct, adaptive, genetic noise)