In Areas of Knowledge Such as the Arts or the Sciences, Do We Learn More from Work That Follows or That Breaks with Accepted Convention?
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In areas of knowledge such as the arts and the sciences, do we learn more from work that follows or that breaks with accepted conventions?
Question 6: In areas of knowledge such as the arts and the sciences, do we learn more from work that follows or that breaks with accepted conventions?
Is it possible that we learn equally from seemingly contradictory situations of work that follows and work that breaks with accepted conventions? Stereotypically the sciences and mathematics are all about fundamental laws, which are further developed and build up. Hence, scientists and mathematicians are assumed to most likely learn more from work that follow. However in the arts, people tend to assume that artists value and learn from new ideas and continuous breakthrough of works. Therefore artists learn more from works that breaks with accepted conventions. However, these various processes of learning in all of the different areas of knowledge are actually interlinked to one another and create a never-ending cycle of learning. Subsequently, through this cycle, we can conclude that we are able to learn equally from both works that follows and that breaks with accepted conventions.
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Fig. 1 Diagram Showing Breakthroughs in the Arts through Breaking Conventions
Art is originality: being creative and introducing new ideas and breakthroughs. These breakthroughs are totally original and unique that they are not connected to another. They expand the knowledge of arts and have resulted in the broader and limitless room for innovation of knowledge. As a result, people will learn new things in the arts and further widen their knowledge. For example, an artist like Picasso rejected the art movement of the time, which tried ‘to reach an ideal clarity, formality and precision[i], then came up with the revolutionary movement of cubism. Another famous expressionist at that time, Kandinsky, believed that art should not necessarily be representational in order to
In areas of knowledge such as the arts and the sciences, do we learn more from work that follows or that breaks with accepted conventions?
Question 6: In areas of knowledge such as the arts and the sciences, do we learn more from work that follows or that breaks with accepted conventions?
Is it possible that we learn equally from seemingly contradictory situations of work that follows and work that breaks with accepted conventions? Stereotypically the sciences and mathematics are all about fundamental laws, which are further developed and build up. Hence, scientists and mathematicians are assumed to most likely learn more from work that follow. However in the arts, people tend to assume that artists value and learn from new ideas and continuous breakthrough of works. Therefore artists learn more from works that breaks with accepted conventions. However, these various processes of learning in all of the different areas of knowledge are actually interlinked to one another and create a never-ending cycle of learning. Subsequently, through this cycle, we can conclude that we are able to learn equally from both works that follows and that breaks with accepted conventions.
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Fig. 1 Diagram Showing Breakthroughs in the Arts through Breaking Conventions
Art is originality: being creative and introducing new ideas and breakthroughs. These breakthroughs are totally original and unique that they are not connected to another. They expand the knowledge of arts and have resulted in the broader and limitless room for innovation of knowledge. As a result, people will learn new things in the arts and further widen their knowledge. For example, an artist like Picasso rejected the art movement of the time, which tried ‘to reach an ideal clarity, formality and precision[i], then came up with the revolutionary movement of cubism. Another famous expressionist at that time, Kandinsky, believed that art should not necessarily be representational in order to
Bibliography: World of Art. Thames & Hudson (February 1985) 2 World of Art. Thames & Hudson; Rev Sub edition (December 1994) 3 Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (October 23, 1970) 4 Fig. 3 (Right): Kandinsky’s Composition VII (1913), his innovation and improvisation.