1. The Arts

3. Music is a dreadful thing. I don’t understand it. What does it do? – Ludwig von Beethoven in Immortal Beloved Music is a dreadful thing. I don’t understand it. What does it do? – Ludwig von Beethoven in Immortal Beloved

4. Music There is probably no other human cultural activity which is so all-pervasive and which reaches into, shapes, and often controls so much human behavior. - Bruno Nettl, Music in Primitive Cultures, 1956 Beethoven piano concerto No.3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FetACZlj0_0 http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNjMzODEyNjY0.html

5. Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, … flight to the imagination and life to everything. - Plato

6. Art in the Social Studies

11. What kind of essential questions does art ask What Kind of Essential Questions does art give??

12. How Does the World Answer the Big Questions? With Art? How does looking at paintings, sculptures, and other works of art convey the way man answers the worldview questions?

14. ‘ The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. — Michaelangelo

15. Without having seen the Sistine Chapel one can form no appreciable idea of what one man is capable of achieving. Johann Wolfgang Goethe in 1787 in Rome

17. The purpose of painting is to depict the intention of man’s soul. – Leonardo da Vinci

18. ‘Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.’ — Paul Klee

19. The role of the Arts Creative arts: play a crucial role in shaping worldviews Implied declaration that w-view is more than abstract ideas (mall e.g.) The arts are ‘grounded in the image-making and image-perceiving nature of people’. We are made in the image of God, but we will be re-shaped into the image of what we put before us. People do not live by ideas alone. They also express their affirmations and denials through the paint on canvas, the tension and release of sound, and poems and stories.

20. Richard Nieubur—theologian ‘We are far more image-making and image using creatures than we usually think ourselves to be and….are guided and formed by images in our minds…..Man is a being who grasps and shapes reality…with the aid of great images, metaphors, and analogies’ People’s actions are partly directed and informed by symbols, metaphors, heroes and villains that are often visually depicted. E.g. Cross and altar, national flag, patriotic legends