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Art Appreciation May.8 th .2020 Wenwei Chen “There are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people’s eyes.” Shakespeare said. Many people own their special or simple opinion about art. People have different views and perceptions about art. The course Art Appreciation gives us an easy and relaxes platform to touch the art and learn how to appreciate art in a basic way. Art appreciation is like a journey, and you will enjoy the change of artistic expression, history, and technologies. I would like to say that Art Appreciation is a mental communication with artwork and artists. From my point of view, nothing is better than knowing artists with their artworks, life, and stories. When I tried to know about the Chinese artist, Cai Guoqiang, I searched a lot of information about him including his type of art, life stories, and outstanding artworks. Those are mental communication with him. I gained a lot of mental treasure throughout the process. In my mind, this is a passion, reason, and ...

Rocket Pusher made by Professor Wenwei.

The picture comes from this site.  https://weheartit.com/entry/242033660  Author: Yosrrat Summary:  https://www.ted.com/talks/denis_dutton_a_darwinian_theory_of_beauty/transcript The things people call beautiful are different.  This brief list includes human beings,   natural landforms,   works of art, and skilled human actions.  Beauty is an adaptive effect,   which we extend   and intensify   in the creation and enjoyment   of works of art and entertainment.  People agree that paintings or movies or music are beautiful because their cultures determine a uniformity of aesthetic taste. There are many differences in the arts, but there are also universal cross-cultural aesthetic pleasures and values. Social situations in which people evolved also change people how to thing of beauty. 

Located along the southwest side of Grant Park, Agora is one of Chicago’s most recent and important sculptural installations. Comprised of 106 nine-foot tall headless torsos made of cast iron, the artwork derives it name from the Greek word for meeting place. The figures are posed walking in groups in various directions or standing still. Internationally renowned artist Magdalena Abakanowicz donated the sculptural group along with the Polish Ministry of Culture, a Polish cultural foundation, and other private donors. Born into an aristocratic family just outside of Warsaw, Abakanowicz (b. 1930) was deeply affected by World War II and the forty-five years of Soviet domination that followed. In her journals, she writes that she has lived “…in times which were extraordinary by their various forms of collective hate and collective adulation. Marches and parades worshipped leaders, great and good, who soon turned out to be mass murderers. I was obsessed by the image of the crowd… I s...