while listening, reading, and forming new imaginative ideas about both the TED Talk “Benjamin Zander: How Does Music Transform Us?” and Rhys Southan’s “Is it okay to Make art” I realized that both works have different ideas but they come together in the end and show how Art is not a waste of time. I believe personally that Art itself can transform society and help make everyone closer as a whole. music and art release emotions, awaken possibility, and relive our selves of stress. in an explanation by Benjamin Zander he hints at how music itself can help society as whole. he continues on to provide the listener with an question, could you imagine movies, TV, and Videos without music? No you can’t because no emotions would be shown by the audience if they weren’t moved by sounds and background music.
The brainstorm activity helped to further my ideas and explanations that I am going to use in the Essay to prove how art isn’t a waste of time. I hadn’t realized how helpful annotations and listening to works were until I began to brainstorm for this essay and realized how much easier it is to understand things when you dive deeper into them. the Activity help me in synthesizing information and forming new ideas, along with that it helped my understand of how the sources connect, as well as how powerful art really was.
Ryan,
You have the beginning of a thesis statement, here: “I believe personally that Art itself can transform society and help make everyone closer as a whole. music and art release emotions, awaken possibility, and relive our selves of stress.” I love how you are pushing yourself to specifically articulate this beleifs. Keep that up!
And of course, as your ENG 110 instructor, your second paragraph thrills me. Continue to work on those annotations. They really do pay off! 🙂