Modular reflections for TOK. Identify a piece of art which has communicated beauty to you, what precisely is this beauty and how is it that art manages to convey it?

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Name: Pranav Sharma (24)

Class: 4.15

POD Modular Reflection 1

Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804) said, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." "Eye" includes all the sense, as David Hume (1711 - 1776) said: "Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them." Saying that beauty is in the mind of the beholder. Individuals have their own unique vision of the abstract, so they see art in different ways, judging its beauty by how well the expression meets their expectations.

1. Identify a piece of art which has communicated beauty to you, what precisely is this beauty and how is it that art manages to convey it?

2. If Art is about personal opinion, then why do we, as a society, rate some art as better than others? Why is art that were created centuries ago still well-known and valuable today?

3. Is the arts an important area of knowledge for you? What does art do that science and mathematics do not?

The Last Supper is a 15th century mural painting created by Leonardo da Vinci. It represents the last meal that Jesus had with his disciples