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Assignment 5: Continuing the Conversation

Assignment 5: Continuing the Conversation

Q Identity has played a large role in this lesson—the anonymous sculptors of the Middle Ages, the art of African Americans, and the big prices paid for big-name artists at auction. Is it important for us to know who made things? Does it shape or modify our expectations when we know the background of the artist who has created something? In some fashion, is all art autobiographical or should art explore experiences that are universal? Can we, or should we, separate the art from the artist? Your post should be two to three (well-developed) paragraphs long.

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Although I do not believe that we need to know the artist to get something because not only it affects our mentality but it also increases the values due o perceptions. As we tend to favor a person over others, for us, knowing the name may lead to bias. However, it is also true that a person who have created the drawing should get the recognition because the more he or she will be recognized, the value of that person’s works will increase. Many of the artists have suffered from extreme poverty in the past due to a lack of recognition and they got the attention posthumously which did not help them