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Lesson 5: Questions in art history- What is Cultural Heritage?
- Where are the women artists?
- Must art be beautiful?
- Is there a difference between art and craft?
- What's the point of realism?
- What makes art valuable—then and now?
- Copying — spotlight: Virgin Hodegetria
- Copying as innovation and resistance
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Must art be beautiful?
This video explores the idea that art doesn't always have to be beautiful. It talks about how art can make us think, feel, and question things. It also shows that art can be a way to share ideas and experiences.
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Phew! I wish she'd slow down a little - or a lot. And the artworks just kept flashing by - I had to keep pausing the video to view them. I'm exhausted after watching it. What was the subject about again?(12 votes)
This video suggests a dichotomy of beauty being objective or subjective - what about it being a memetic entity, such that the notion of beauty is an emergent entity that travels with people, that is both its own thing but comes out in a subjective way? This seems neither entirely objective nor subjective.(11 votes)