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Knowledge and the Arts

I was one of the people who belittled art. My attitude towards art was “I know reading books or looking at an art work gives me a new experience and even entertains me, but I don’t think they are...

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Knowledge & Arts

In this blog I will be mentioning ideas that I missed in my first blog post, also called Knowledge and the Arts. Mr. Macknight mentions that people tend to disregarded the Arts as redundant, something...

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Knowledge and the Arts

I still believe that art today as been reduced to just being an art form that is very decorative, but this is completely dependent on a persons point of opinion. This is because now there are many...

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Response to knowledge and arts essay

Like my view in the last essay, I agree that it is wrong to ask the question: what is the meaning in art, simply because meaning is determined subjectively by each individual. A person might interpret...

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knowledge and the Arts

The article, ‘Knowledge and the arts’ is about technical knowledge and biographical/historical knowledge of art. Through technical knowledge, we can learn about artist technique by examining works of...

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Knowledge and the arts

The article written by Mr.Macknight instigated many questions. Starting from the question ‘whether arts have to be beautiful’, there are many thought that expressed the same ideas that I had about Art....

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“The Golden Ratio: Design’s Biggest Myth”

The Golden Ratio is a staple of mathematics classes, art classes, and TOK textbooks. In this article by John Brownlee, however, he makes that case that the Golden Ratio is a load of rubbish. . . . the...

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June 2015: Mothballed

As I will begin a new job in the fall of 2015 at a school that does not (for the moment, at least) offer the IB Diploma, this TOK class blog will become inactive in June 2015. I will leave it online...

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How economics and politics are intertwined

https://medium.com/bull-market/greg-mankiw-forgot-what-he-teaches-2cf269b3aa74

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The (un)reliability of scientific journals

This article is rather technical, but a quotation near the bottom sums it up nicely: Journal editors have expended much time and effort in teasing out how to handle authors’ and reviewers’ competing...

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The value of the art

“Mona Lisa” was valued at 3.45 billion US dollars in 1920, and now its conservative valuation has exceeded 10 billion. But I feel that something is wrong, because even if we spends tens of billions, it...

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ART

  This ice cream is handmade in small batches by our master ice cream chef. All the ingredients are 100% natural, organic, and completely free of any artificial additives or colorings of any kind...

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The Arts

One aspect in the article ” Taste for Makers” is trying to tell me that Good design is simple. However I don’t entirely consent about this because in different area of art there are different judgement...

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The Arts – Eloise Richardson

The Arts are very different from other studies such as Maths and Science. Where Math and Science are based off of facts and whether they are correct or not, Art is purely based on personal opinion and...

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Art – Josefa Ortega

After I red the two handouts “knowledge and the arts” and “ taste for makers”  I think that art is an essential element of culture but it is pretty hard to know when a piece of art is good or if it is...

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The Arts

When it comes to art, the first thing that comes to mind is that art is a form of expression of creative abilities, but after reading the brochures on “knowledge and the arts” and “taste for creators”,...

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Reflection on the arts

In a general sense, art is any human activity that draws on emotions and the intellect to create works that have aesthetic characteristics. This groups together different areas -such as sculpture,...

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Art discussion

Art surrounds us everywhere in the world. In the whole history of humanity, every generation had a standard of beauty and they keep changing till today. In my opinion, there is no way to judge art....

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Art from a different prospective

After watching the video explanation from the girl from Ipanema and going through the handouts,  taste for makers and knowledge, & the arts. I’ve completely changed my point of view towards the...

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How to make good stuff?

This rather technical question is supported (and supports at the same time) by multiple theoretical questions, for instance, what makes stuff good? What type of stuff are we talking about? Is there...

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