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Blog #8 – Arts RLS “Why the Renaissance and its Art Were More Controversial Than We Think”

Link to the RLS: http://bigthink.com/Picture-This/why-the-renaissance-and-its-art-were-more-controversial-than-we-think Summary: The perception of the renaissance is changing. In the period known as the high renaissance, we see the works of Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael. Negel explained that there is a new controversy of Renaissance art because of not everyone having been brought up through the ideals of the renaissance movement. Negal sees the high renaissance between the 1400s – 1500s between two ‘calm’ eras. In this time was the invention of the religious art. The search for the religious art would have begun with Negal and the debate of over the proper function of imagery. “ religious art as a distraction from the message of the image—a tension between the making of beautiful pictures and the making of pious pictures ” (University of Chicago 2015). The text goes on and on, the jest of it is that because we come from different time eras and differe

Blog #7 - Arts and Viewer discretion – discussion response:

  “A quick talk and hear me out here”, in today’s class, an extensively long class discussion occurred, the idea was about discretion when creating art and whose views matter in the reception of it as well as how/who would see this ‘art’. I would say that I was a “MAJOR” contributor to the discussion. In the way that I liked building in people’s ideas. I found that a lot of what I was doing was making new arguments although I never got to talk about my own views on the subject matters. I liked what Zain said, she talked about it is always the viewer's responsibility to exercise discretion when viewing things, the internet is a massive viscus place and the right mentality is needed to use it, if not a lot of “BAD” things may come up. Essentially, we are getting more than what we asked for. I expanded on that idea with the argument that with the search bar, comes great responsibility. In the defense of large film companies, the internet is a true meritocracy, where th

Blog #6 - CSR IN THE MEDIA – Control what is said ‘13 reasons why’

Netflix as a media sharing platform has a Corporate Social Responsibility when in respect to their own actions when making their own content. It Is universally understood that ‘ Suicide ’ is a negative idea/view that is not encouraged in fact it is warned against. Television shows aimed towards adolescence is an area that requires a lot of discretion , to understand the ‘extent that adolescence will react with the show’. The text mentions “teens are particularly sensitive and exposed to quick and powerful changes in perspective to the world”. They would be quick to form opinions and act on them. It is said a trait that makes kids better than adults is that they don’t over analyze things, they would action on it, and so if it does not work out, they lean and don’t do it again. When an artist or writer in this circumstance should consider the extent his/her inquiry should take, they are not supposed to do too far and to be relevant not stay too safe, this is a really t