tok essay 6

For instance art is an excellent example, when society is progressing, peoples’ taste in aesthetics also change and as a result, the technique of artists have changed to cop with the change in fashion as well. For example in the past centuries people preferred the figure painting however people have progressed to landscape painting although people still like figure painting. This shows that there is a break in the previous conventions of liking figuring painting and setting up new conventions, as the demand of society has changed. That is the subjective factor breaking conventions. For example people in the past have long established that paintbrushes were used for painting but people have progressed towards body paints, fruits and sprays. Artists that break conventions have shed new light on the potential of humans.

Nevertheless, it should be known that most attempts to break convention are of substandard, leading to ridicule. Yet, if an artist did not have the courage to create we would be in lack of aesthetics. Breaking convention is significant to art, as without it art would become stagnate, especially with the repetition of style.

Breaks in convention can be present in literature, visual arts, fashion, films, as well as, logical and new approaches to politics, culture, music, and cuisine.

Conventions in art have also changed due to the period of time. Pablo Ruiz Picasso the famous Spanish painter is an example of an artist who went through an array of styles in his works over a period of time possibly because as time goes by artists express themselves differently an example is Cubism, which was an  art movement  that revolutionised  European painting  and motivated movements in music and literature. Their interpretation and perception of a painting also changes with time.

On the other hand science has formed a new view to the world and man’s position in it, from the macroscopic to the microscopic.

 The issue with science as oppose to art is a little different. Nevertheless on the objective knowledge such like science are different. Science depends on fact in order to find the truth, unlike art when the convention is broken by people’s minds, in science conventions are broken from the findings of observation and empirically testing things. Therefore we gain more understanding from work that breaks tradition. By breaking conventions a scientist can learn how the cosmos actually works, but also can learn how the previous principal structures was faulty. For example Galileo, an Italian philosopher who played a role in the scientific revolution broke conventions in astrology when he found that the earth was not in the centre of our galaxy but the sun.

Another example is the knowledge of bacteria. People were not aware of the invisible world. The convention at that period believed that doctors reacted with opposition at suggestions to cleanse their hands when moving from autopsies to childbirth. As bacteria was discovered, the finding broke with the conventional thoughts at that period of time, it revolutionized humanity of medicine so therefore we could that a great deal is learnt about reality from this breaks in convention.

On this note we use reason and facts over our own intuition so the mistakes will be minimised.  There are some conventions that can revolutionize on the objective knowledge, but only when there are some mistakes. Which in this case are the misunderstanding of scientific knowledge have broad implications, as a lot of knowledge rely on other knowledge.

The base of this change would change in the whole system of the knowledge. This is similar to a building, once the foundation is damaged, it demolishes the building. For example the structure of atom, before people thought that the protons and electrons are equally spread in atom.

Johannes Geiger and his graduate student, Ernest Marsden, carried out a series of experiments that eventually made known that the atom consists of an inner, positively charged nucleus enclosed by electrons.

Just like in the 19th century Euclid brought about a model of reasoning such as the          simple axioms, which were seen to be self-evident truths, established without no proofs. Although when tried to be proven, new axioms were formed which opened new views on logical possibility.

While in history breaks in accepted conventions can occur during reinterpretations. Numerous historians in the past might have made a biased interpretation of past event. If there were numerous historians with a comparable view, their interpretation may turn out to be conventional. For example during the second world war historians may have been biased towards the Jews as they were believed to be the inferior ethnicity, therefore their interpretation would have been in favour of the Nazis, perhaps the way in which the historians perceived the information could have affected their interpretation.

Although we gain more knowledge from work that breaks conventions and the breaks will continue to occur as time progresses. The two phases to the development of learning, which I think we gain the same from those. We learn knowledge in the first phase, which is useful, and gain higher-level knowledge in the second phase, the factual.  The old knowledge is always incorporated in to the new knowledge so no knowledge is lost. At the present time people suppose that the break is essential so therefore promote break in convention. But there are at all times bad breaks, and these breaks have consequences. Rather than reacting to achievement or failure, we tend to progress and move to other stages of cognition and behaviour in order to respond to the changes of what we perceive as the present trend and the new conventional knowledge.
In conclusion followed convention and break convention are two phases of circulating one another. With follow conventions we can gain basic knowledge, which is the basis of learning. The two reasons we break conventions are that society develops similar to art, where people taste with time affect conventions. The other look at science and how new knowledge modifies old knowledge.

We learn from both areas of knowledge but we have learnt more knowledge the break in conventions is inevitable.