TOK

• Vatican Museum
• Greek Gods
• Apollo Belvedere - Leochares
• Confliction with moral values
• Cultural effect

Relation of arts & ethics and ways of knowing (reason, sense perception, emotions)

• To what extent is the reality reflected through artworks?

• How does our emotions affect our understanding of the art?

• How does the perspective of the artist affect THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE SOCIETY?

• To what extent do the moral values HAVE A ROLE in the appreciation of arts?

Sub-questıons

Evidence

A Few Small Nips by Frida Kahlo

CLAIM #1

• Artist reflect the reality based on his/her observations without hiding anything.

• Artworks that contain reality of humans are evaluated in the form of criticism.

Claım #1

COUNTER Claım #1

• An artwork reflects the social problems to educate society in terms of being a human.

• The essential thing in arts is the meaning behind it. Instead of showing uncomfortable realities of the world, the meaning evaluated is shown.

COUNTER Claım #1

Evıdence #2

CLAIM #2

Claım #2

• Emotions of the spectator affect his/her viewpoint through an artwork, they elicit the meaning behind it.

COUNTER CLAIM #2

COUNTER Claım #2

• Emotions do not affect the understanding of the arts.

• Perspective of the artist shape the sense of the artwork, what the artist try to express affect the intellection of the person

evıdence

Guernica by Picasso

CLAIM #3

• Artist’s perspective influence the society's evaluation on the context given in an artwork.

• Society’s stance is shaped according to way of message transmitted by the artist.

claım #3

COUNTER CLAIM #3

• The arts is relative for everyone. Every individual in society has different perspectives which develop various messages from an artwork.

COUNTER claım #3

evıdence

sleepıng venus by gıorgıone

CLAIM #4

• The supposed ‘immoralist’ artist will often provide an explanation, a concept, a reason for the works existence, which again adds not only to the aesthetic experience of the audience but to the work itself
• It strengthens the artist’s relation to their own work.

COUNTER CLAIM #4

• "Kant" writes that "the beautiful is the symbol of the morally good" . Including immoral actions, it makes spectator think or believe in that way.
• society may incline to immortality.

• Artworks that contain the reality of humans are evaluated in the form of criticism.
• Emotions of the spectator affect his or her viewpoints through an artwork, they elicit the meaning behind it.
• Artist’s perspective influences the evaluation of the society on the context given in an artwork.
• Moral values do not affect artistic integrity.

Reasoning

Artistic judgement

Emotions

Artist's perspective

• Artist should reflect the realities of the world. It can be a social problem, true psychology of human, a criticism of a belief.
• Arts, in essence presents the ordinary.
• Arts guides us to perceive the world, to look at it from a new angle.
• Artworks that contain sexuality or violence should be evaluated in the form of authenticity, realism