Throughout history, we can see that humans always try to acquire new knowledge. We can see this pattern because knowledge helps us, human, to have a better understanding of the world that we live in. When gaining knowledge we don't only use one way of knowing for each area of knowledge. We use a network of ways of knowing for each area of knowledge in order to acquire new discovery. We can notice a network of ways of knowing is being used in mathematics and art. Not every area of knowledge uses the same network of ways of knowing. Instead, each area of knowledge has a slightly different network of ways of knowing. Mathematics is one of the most certain areas of knowledge, because it connects to the real world better than the others. It is the one area of knowledge that most people believe in and studies …show more content…
However, it is possible that some art only needs two way of knowing to learn its truth. In the famous painting "The Starry Night", by Vincent Van Gogh, the reader can learn one of the truths about nightfall. The two ways of knowing that are needed to acquire the truth are sense perception and emotion. We need to use our sense perception to view the artwork. Mainly, it is used to perceive the numerous details that are being displayed on the painting. These details include the wavy sky, the glowing star, a miniature town, the blue paint, and a huge moon. When use emotion to interoperate these details, one can feel relaxed from the wavy sky, calm from the shining moon, cold from the blue paint, and lonely from the quiet town. After sense perception and emotion is deployed, then the reader can learn one of the possible truths about nightfall, which was that it calm people's heart but also make evoke loneliness within people. In this case, the audience is only using two ways of knowing to learn the truth about an artwork, but not a network of way of
The horrible accounts of the holocaust are vividly captured by Elie Wiesel in Night, an award winning work by a Holocaust survivor. It describes his time in the Holocaust and helps the reader fully understand the pain he went through. In the text, Elie continuously mentions how he is losing his faith to god. It is evident that he has nearly, if not completely lost his faith during the events of the holocaust. In the memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel’s faith changes because of the absence of God, the dehumanization of the prisoners, and all of the death that surrounds him.
Using this technique allows the artist to create a more complex masterpiece. In his well-known painting Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh utilizes the rhetorical device contrast in color, texture, and definition to convey a peaceful, yet dark, nighttime scene. The juxtaposition of warm and cool colors in Starry Night serves to portray both the harshness and the peacefulness of the night sky. When someone first looks at the painting, the first colors he or she will notice are the very prominent blues
Select a non-discursive artifact such as a painting, a musical composition, a building, or a piece of furniture. Do the five canons of rhetoric—invention, organization, style, memory, and delivery—apply? If they do, explain how you see them manifest in the artifact.
The first four sources I will be using are related to “The Starry Night” painting from Vincent van Gogh. The first source, located on MOMA Learning, is titled "Vincent van Gogh: The Starry Night, 1889” which does not appear to have an author or publication date. The MOMA Learning article provides insights into the interpretations of the artwork, including insights into Van Gogh’s mental state at the time that the painting. Additionally, the article provides relevant information regarding the post-impressionists use of their art as a way to express their emotions and “psychological responses to the world through bold colors and expressive, often symbolic images” (MOMA Learning, n.d.). The second source is “Van Gogh: Art and Suicide”
“From Night” is a story told from a young Jewish boy's perspective, in Germany during the Holocaust. The young Elie shows us very in depth and detailed story of the events happening at the camp. Through this perspective we get a better look at how the Germans treated the Jews with such intolerance and prejudice. Although this story helps us see into to times of such events, the reader can’t help but to feel for the poor boy.
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The first work that I am evaluating is "The Starry Night" by Vincent van Gogh which was created in June 1889 and is currently located at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. “The Starry Night” was painted during the post-impressionist period, and is one of several that Van Gogh produced while staying at the asylum in Saint-Remy in southern France. According to Soomo Learning (2017) the piece is "a vision of dynamic spiritual movement from temporality to eternity" (Section 2.4.2 Art Gallery). The painting depicts an imagined view of the town of Saint-Remy, with a Dutch style church at the center and rolling hills in the background. It appears to be just before dawn with bright stars, Venus, and the moon set in a vivid blue swirling sky. Contrasting the bright stars and brilliant blue sky is a dark looming cypress tree that occupies the left side of the image and contains a flamelike appearance.
The prescribed title displays a wide range of ideas that the areas of knowledge are being used to give knowledge as the ways of knowing and used to build and/or create the areas of knowledge. Both ways of knowing and areas of knowledge intertwine with their own concepts and perspectives, like a Susquehanna Tree that needs its branches and roots in order to have a strong trunk. The Arts, for example, as an area of knowledge, uses a network of at least six ways of knowing, such as memory, sense perception, intuition, imagination, faith, and emotion. Artists create and produce whatever is influencing them, like most famous artists, they are influenced by events that happened in their lives, which made them feel a
The movement of the stars in the night sky can be categorised into two different motions. The first is diurnal, and it is an astronomical term referring to the motion of the stars every 24 hours around the two celestial poles (Earth). The diurnal motion of the stars is caused by Earth’s rotation on its axis from west to east, resulting in every star moving in a circle (the diurnal circle). One sidereal day (23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.09 seconds) is the time it takes for one complete rotation. If one were to look into the night sky in the southern hemisphere, the stars would appear to rotate from east to west around the South Celestial Pole (due to the rotation of Earth). Stars are also only visible during certain times of the year, as the brightness
The idea of knowledge is something we always seem to be The idea of knowledge is something we always seem to be fantasizing about and normally strive to obtain more and more everyday since we are accustomed to the fact that learning more information makes you brighter and smarter. But what happens when there is an overflow of knowledge? Various inventions, and not safe ones, can be sparked because of this knowledge. Found in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the danger of too much knowledge is evident. Being a wise individual and having passion for a certain subject not always leads to expected results.
One of Vincent Van Gogh’s most world renowned paintings is his landscape oil painting Starry Night. The painting displays a small town underneath an unusual yet still extremely beautiful night sky. In this night sky, Van Gogh utilizes an array of colors that blend well together in order to enhance the sky as a whole. The town is clearly a small one due to the amount of buildings that are present in the painting itself. In this small town most of the buildings have lights on which symbolize life in a community. Another visual in Starry Night is the mountain like figures that appear in the background of the illustrious painting. Several things contribute to the beauty of Van Gogh’s painting which are the painting’s function, context, style, and design. Van Gogh’s utilization of these elements help bring further emphasis to his work in Starry Night.
Art is a form of expression that can be interpreted through different perspectives. Some people may think an elaborate painting that took hours to create is art, such as The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh or Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. Others may consider graffiti painted by teenagers on the side of the fence is art like modern graffiti artist Banksy. How many people would say faces painted on the sidewalks, trees covered in shopping carts and stuffed animals was considered to be art? Many people would nod and say no or give a confused look to such unorthodox form of art. In Detroit, Michigan there is such a place like this and people from the area consider it to be art. These collections of art work have even won several awards and recognitions.
Sadly, I have become accustomed to these responses. Mathematics can be related to almost anything in the world. Although I have completed all the available math classes at my school, I still have a thirst for more math-related
The following evaluation is based on the premise that art is creativity, popular, and masterful technique. Creativity, popular, and masterful technique is important because it allows us to exclude plagiarism, biased art, and sloppy. First, art can be creative but not plagiarised because then is is not original or unique meaning it is not creative. Next, art can be popular but not biased on a small group. Finally, art can also have masterful technique but cannot be sloppy. With all of this in mind, an evaluation of Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh will show that it is a piece of art.
Mathematics is the one of the most important subjects in our daily life and in most human activities the knowledge of mathematics is important. In the rapidly changing world and in the era of technology, mathematics plays an essential role. To understand the mechanized world and match with the newly developing information technology knowledge in mathematics is vital. Mathematics is the mother of all sciences. Without the knowledge of mathematics, nothing is possible in the world. The world cannot progress without mathematics. Mathematics fulfills most of the human needs related to diverse aspects of everyday life. Mathematics has been accepted as significant element of formal education from ancient period to the present day. Mathematics has a very important role in the classroom not only because of the relevance of the syllabus material, but because of the reasoning processes the student can develop.