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What are the roles of Art in our daily lives? Art is a form of entertainment, public, and personal enjoyment. Art is expression of the artist. Art is the form of communication from the artist. Art shows the uniqueness of the artist. Art is to open a window to life for both the artist and the audience. Art is a depiction of mood. Art is a representation of genre. Art is a form of creation to express thought perspective in the artist's mind. Art is an immortalization of a memory. Art is a way to leave a legacy. Art is a way to aesthetically please people. Art is used for propaganda. Art is a way to represent something we can't see. Art informs society. Art is a form of worship. <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Art is a way to share fantasy utopia.

Emphasis e.g. Aesthetics > The perfection of 'David' by Michelangelo Artist > Jackson Pollock's fame affecting value of "No.5" Era/Time -> Renaissance Medium/Techniques--> Oil Pastels by hand Message--> 'Uncle Sam: Join the Army' History/Event---> Fernando Amorsolo: Death and Rape of his First Wife (Japanese Invaders in the Philippines) Expression/Mood--> Sistine Chapel (Provokes Awe) Genre- --> Neo-Expressionist Comparison--> Edward Munch's Scream Copies Well thought out response below, John. I particularly like your look to the future and the merging of Art and Math through technology. Keep in mind the value of including specific examples in your writing. For example, a compelling case of Art and Math emerging can be made right here at KAUST. The buildings were designed to be LEED certified, which has all kinds of Math involved in terms of efficiencies, and this works hand in hand with the effort to have the place user friendly and appealing. Beauty and Mathematics working together!

I hope you have your questions for the artists ready for section c. below. cct3

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Three Q's for a Resident Artist at KAUST

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> 1. How do you compare your method in finding inspiration to form art from how Leonardo Da Vinci found his inspiration/s for creating the Mona Lisa? (Ms. A) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> 2. Given the freedom to choose any, what is/was your favorite art piece (maybe music or something else) 10 years ago? What is your favorite art piece as of today? Is it still the same as the one you had 10 years ago or is it different now? Why'd you choose that art piece over the previous art piece you chose back then? (Is it time? Is it the aesthetics? etc.) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> 3. What does Art mean to you personally? <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">4. Does Art make you happy or sad? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 180%;">5. Do you have a piece of art that you highly valued at one point in your life that you no longer value as highly as now? Please tell us more about that. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 180%;">6. What would be the reasons that you'll present as a way to prove that Art is necessary for us as individuals that come from different societies?

For Wednesday, October 13:

1. Save to your Art Page on your Wiki a 300 - 750 word essay: 2. Load the blank CAS Learning Template to a CAS page on your TOK Wiki. 3. Bring any records, reflections from CAS projects begun or completed last year. 4. Remember your sacred duty as a senior to keep the SNACKS flame burning at all times.
 * Topic choice: a) Argue that schools designing curriculum for grades 9 - 12 should have more, less, or the same time devoted to Art as Math. b) Argue for or against Art for inclusion as a WOK - moving PERL to PEARL - For both topics keep in mind 1. the possible benefit of listing the roles in society and the emphases for evaluation for Math, as we have done for Art. That might help you get started and 2. the value of specific examples no matter what your topic or stance.
 * Length - 150 - 750 words depending on where you are with your writing learning (Level I, II or III)
 * Title: choose something clever and interesting

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pro quo - Both complement each other example – computer aided drawing 21 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 7.2pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super;">st <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> century art. Ex. Beautiful wheel made of stone in Mesopotamia

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Pro math – math is the basis of other subject – science and history for example – you use math to balance equations, organize the p-table and calculate mass.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Pro art – art promotes broadened minds, ex. Open-minded person might stop a race-riot rather than start one.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Pro math – art can be overanalyzed people see math where the artist did not intend. Example - A squiggle could be analyzed scientifically whereas at its core it is just a squiggle

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Pro quo – both art and math are in history for example. Math is used in history to create timelines and compare data - society to society. Art is in history when you learn about someone you have never seen through the pictures of that person. They can even come into your dreams through art.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Pro art – art is in math for example beautiful graphs, math is in art for example balance in the picture.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pro M/A/Quo || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Point || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Example ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pro Quo || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Math has limits whereas art doesn’t || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The law ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pro Quo || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Math and art are imperative in the education system given by any constitution to the people so that the future successors of leaders of the constitution can be capable and competitive enough to handle all the responsibilities || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Murder of a civilian (civilian burns flag, gets shot) ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pro Math || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Math is learned by almost every student || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Universities often require math to accept students ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pro Quo || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Art also has limits || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Laws against graffiti limits artists ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pro Math || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Math can be an important contributor to art whereas art can’t be an important contributor to math || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Golden Ratio ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pro Quo || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Considering that all subjects intertwine, students should be able to customize their timing of math and art ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pro Art ||  || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The time between tones makes the beauty of music ||

Art Essay Topic: Argue that schools designing curriculum for Grades 9-12 should have more, less or the same time devoted to Art as Math.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Math is ART and Art is MATH <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> There is MATH in Art and there is ART in Math. Math and Art are imperative in the education system given by any constitution to the people so that the future successors of leaders of the constitution can be capable and competitive enough to handle all the responsibilities. Art has a certain aspect of being abstract that lets individuals create or form ideas and express their thoughts and feelings as well. Unfortunately, there is a setback for Art to get too surfeit and get out of hand and so this is where Math comes to serve as an balance for Math's characteristic of organization and systematizing. Although, the flip side of Math is that if too much Math was integrated a certain idea, the thought becomes too mechanical (or robotic for a more slang term). One fine example of this would be in today's society is the fast-growing demand for more accessible and flexible methods of creating graphical designs. Even back then when computers were still not invented, the concept of creating graphical designs of let's say machines was already incorporated with a combination of multitude levels of both Math and Art. But as today's 21st Century technology grows exponentially by the minute, the demand for it to be able to create more precise and faster results also dramatically increases. And so with the collaboration of different international computer programmers, mathematicians and artists, it resulted to the creation of Computer Aided Drawing or CAD for short. CAD is a computer-based program (the name says for itself) that relies on a series of complex combination of mathematical equations, dimensioning and visual design, which makes it able to deliver precise and aesthetically pleasing graphical designs or drafts to the producer. But looking back and comparing it to the old-fashioned way of creating graphical designs back then with T-Squares and mechanical pencils, the concept stays relatively on the same level. However, before one even gets to that level, one must look first at how Art and Math can be seen to be complimentary with each other in different aspects through the schooling-level from Grade 9-12. Personally, I see Math and Art as equivalents not because they have any similar aspects (very few of them) but rather because their distinct aspects, like organization and systematic for Math while abstract and vivid for Art, coexists in whether it is a piece of Art or a Math equation. Governments or constitutions in today's world believe that a nation will have a secure future by providing a well thought-out and balanced educational system for the younger generation so that the ones who will succeed the leaders of the nation (or the international community) will be able to deal with the responsibilities of being a leader. But one may question this argument by asking what would be the effect of 'not' having a well-balanced educational system to a society or nation. Let's look at an example back at my home country, the Philippines. I'll compare two different eras of Philippines' modern society: the Marcos' regime and the regimes of his successors. Generally, majority of historians are //completely// biased when it comes to evaluating Marcos' regime. They always discuss about his imposing of Martial Law or corruption in the government but they never really discussed other policies imposed by Marcos in his regime. One of his focuses is that he believes a nation's security for the future will only be certain if the young generation was given proper education. He had thoroughly thought out and discussed that each respective subjects whether in public or private schools must be uniform in having 'equal' amounts of time distributed among them. Noticing the emphasis on 'equal' during Marcos' time, he focused primarily on greatly improving infrastructure in the country and he of course needed engineers and architects who would be able to deliver results that are precise and at the same aesthetically pleasing as well. Graduates from colleges produced quite a large number of engineers who were capable of delivering Marcos' expected magnificent results, which included the Cultural Center of the Philippines, the San Juanico Bridge, and his infamous 'Palace in the Sky'. Unfortunately, after he was overthrown through People Power Revolution, things were never the same for nation again. Illiteracy rates skyrocketed, crime rates shot up by 60% (compared to Marcos' almost 5% crime rate during Martial Law) and economic decline was going fast. The engineers who graduated and worked during Marcos' time had left the country by then and went to find jobs in US, UK, France, Germany, China and the Middle East. As one observes in this example, this clearly presents the consequences that 'could' happen if no well-balanced educational system like having Math and Art have the same amount of time spent on studying is provided for the young generation who will succeed the leaders of a constitution. Overall, Art and Math are imperatives of one another in any idea so each should be given equal amount of time to be studied in school (Grade 9-12 Level), which enables an individual to create an idea or thought that is a balance of being systematical (organized) and at the same time being abstract (creative) in a sense. But again, there are questions that are needed to be considered, which is raised by this argument such as students who would want to specialize in either Math or Art but won’t have interest on the other subject.

IDEAS/SUGGESTIONS:

- No I’s unless they’re after C - Avoid unnecessary use of quotations e.g. “completely” (you can make it italicized instead)

Oct 18 Review - Right on time. Thanks for that. You have made a few detailed questions and some grammatical changes, John. You have a good eye for those while preserving your core argument. We will spend just a bit more time on this and then move on. Your most significant change is here in the final paragraph where you add a question you feel needs to be considered. The key to smoothing out your argument and evidence style is to read, read, read. Keep up the good work.

cct3

Hi John,

Great ideas here. You are one of the best in the class at pulling concrete examples into your argument. Bravo. Suggestions: 1) Work on the grammar (starting with But, And, etc... puts you in fragment mode) 2) Paragraphing and 3) Get some feedback on your final overview. Does it do what you want it to do exactly?

cct3

For Monday, October 11:

1. Ensure your Art page has on it: 2. Using your thinking comparing Art and Math in your initial five sentences, compare two as ways of knowing in writing. Save this to your Art page. Responses will vary from 150 words to 750. Aim for one of the following levels according to your writing ability:
 * list of Roles Art plays in our lives (class list made from discussion)
 * list of Emphases used in evaluating Art (class list compiled from three work groups)
 * your initial 5 sentence answer to Oct 9 homework point 1
 * your three questions for a resident artist at KAUST (in at least one of your questions include a reference to a specific work of art)

Level I
 * Outline briefly the Roles Art and Math play in our lives. (See list for Art - you will need to think of these for Math)
 * Outline briefly the Areas of Emphasis we use when evaluating Art and Math (See class list for Art - you will need to think of these for Math)
 * Mention 1 or 2 roles that are similar and 1 or two that are different.
 * End with your personal answer - how do they compare? Are these areas of knowing very different? or very similar?

Level II Level III
 * Do a selective job of Level I comparison of Art and Math regarding the lists.
 * Give specific examples to make your points
 * Conclude with your personal comparison of these two areas.
 * Keep in mind what YOUR emphasis is as you evaluate them as areas.
 * Meet the criteria for a Level II paper (forget the specific examples at your peril)
 * Hold yourself to a high standard of organization for your argument
 * Include in your analysis and conclusion the implications (meaning) of your argument, any recommendations you might offer society, any interesting questions raised by this exploration.

Homework for October 9:

1. Compare your team's list of emphases with that for judging other another area of knowledge - in this case Math. Think about it - then, limiting yourself to five sentences max, How does evaluating Art compare with evaluating Math? In evaluating Art, there are certain similarities and differences in evaluating it compared to Math. One similarity is that the quantitative aspect is considered in evaluating Art (e.g. Art - Monetary Value of Art; Math - Numbers). Another similarity is the aesthetic aspect as in Art, people like Art which is very pleasing to the eyes whereas in Math, one looks at the organization and basis of the equation to be regarded as true/plausible or not. But there are also differences to be considered like in Art, majority of art pieces never start off organized and is more like of a abstract idea that simply comes to life as the art piece develops whereas in Math, proving theories can't just come out of nowhere without at least some sort of foundation from an existing piece of equation already. But today in the 21st century, we see a lot of overlapping and merging aspects of Math and Art being applied to newly developed and developing technologies to further move forward our technology-oriented society like 'digital animation' and '3-D Computer Modeling (CAD)'. We can also see other examples of the bridging of both Mathematics and Art together in one of my favorite hobbies: Photography. Digital photography to be very precise. I first thought that in taking Photography, all you had to simply do was 'point-and-shoot' as most camera owners do. But in fact, there are several factors to take into consideration in taking even the simplest pictures like Depth, Aperture, Focal Point, Rule of Thirds, Light Distribution and many more. Math certainly applies to all of these but I see it most evident in the Rule of Thirds. In the Rule of Thirds, it is said that an image should be imagined as divided into nine equal parts by two equally-spaced horizontal lines and two equally-spaced vertical lines, and that important compositional elements should be placed along these lines or their intersections. This technique claims that aligning a subject with these points creates more tension, energy and interest in the composition than simply centering the subject would. Now every time I take picture, I always refer to this rule before following the rest of the rules so that I and maybe even other would find my photographs as aesthetically pleasing even if it is very simple in concept and structure.

2. Prepare to address the following challenge in class Saturday. "Can you justify The Arts as part of a school curriculum compared to another area of knowledge (pick one: Math, Language, Human Sciences, Natural Sciences, Ethics) No need to write anything - this is a thinking assignment. Be prepared to describe how you 'did your thinking'.

3. Our work and thinking with Art has included: a) A look at what belongs in the category: Art - including painting, drama, poetry, dance, photography, architecture, fashion, and more. b) Consideration of the roles Art plays in our lives c) Listing areas of emphahsis when we evaluate Art. Keeping these in mind, create three questions and save to your ART PAGE we might pose to Ms. Aguilera, Ms. Morris and/or Mr. Whitehead.