Throughout history, different art forms have been doubted, from the novel to the movie to the video game. Many in society saw movies s as being too different when they first came into existence to be seen as art, critics claim they were too complicated, commercialized, or counter-culture.  When the movie came about many wanted to call it an art form but that was soon challenged as many people wanted to pin down a particular artist for each film. The problem was that even for the greatest motion picture works, this was and is largely impossible.  Critics would judge that directors were writing what the audience wanted. Cantor points out…

The second week of the module was really helpful. I learned about how to construct an argument from start to finish, and how to make all my points valid, and how to avoid invalid arguments, or fallacies, that is. Arguments can be good. We learn a lot more by discussing issues and claims and backing them up with arguments then we do by just spitting facts back and forth, or avoiding arguments as a whole. Fallacies are invalid arguments. I hadn’t really realized before what explicitly constituted an invalid argument, and how I may have been misled by them in the past. Now I know more about what to look,…

The first artist came to be because society could support them. In our latest Praxis lecture, the teacher talked about how there is an economic basis for culture; because artists do not create their own means and therefore reveal a relatively sophisticated society (paraphrased, Paul A. Cantor). This lecture acknowledged that commercialization is more often than not good for the creation of art, as is capitalism. Both these force an artist to perform well to create valuable work that others are willing to sacrifice a hard-earned dollar for.  A lasting thought I had concerned Paul’s quote: “The line between artists and non-artists is increasingly blurred” (Cantor). That is, as our society…