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    The document discusses the creation of white wooden birds by peasants during long, harsh winters as a symbol of hope and survival. It relates this to discussions of how communities find beauty in nature depending on their means of survival, and how art aims to transform fleeting moments of beauty into something permanent. The purpose of the ending paragraph is to contrast the harsh reality of freezing temperatures that prevent real birds from living with the carved wooden bird as an image that transcends this reality and represents warmth, life and a sense of feeling.

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    Artsappreciation

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    The document discusses the creation of white wooden birds by peasants during long, harsh winters as a symbol of hope and survival. It relates this to discussions of how communities find beauty in nature depending on their means of survival, and how art aims to transform fleeting moments of beauty into something permanent. The purpose of the ending paragraph is to contrast the harsh reality of freezing temperatures that prevent real birds from living with the carved wooden bird as an image that transcends this reality and represents warmth, life and a sense of feeling.

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    The document discusses the creation of white wooden birds by peasants during long, harsh winters as a symbol of hope and survival. It relates this to discussions of how communities find beauty in nature depending on their means of survival, and how art aims to transform fleeting moments of beauty into something permanent. The purpose of the ending paragraph is to contrast the harsh reality of freezing temperatures that prevent real birds from living with the carved wooden bird as an image that transcends this reality and represents warmth, life and a sense of feeling.

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    Artsappreciation

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    Jane Mahidlawon
    The document discusses the creation of white wooden birds by peasants during long, harsh winters as a symbol of hope and survival. It relates this to discussions of how communities find beauty in nature depending on their means of survival, and how art aims to transform fleeting moments of beauty into something permanent. The purpose of the ending paragraph is to contrast the harsh reality of freezing temperatures that prevent real birds from living with the carved wooden bird as an image that transcends this reality and represents warmth, life and a sense of feeling.

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    Mahidlawon, Jane O.

    BSIE 2-5

    1. Why do you think the peasants created the white wooden bird?

    The peasants created the white wooden bird as it help them survive during the
    long winters. White bird symbolizes hope for them and brighter future, as the villagers
    hang the white birds in their kitchens and chapels during long and cold winters; it is a
    reminder of summer and brighter days to come.

    2. Explain the following lines from the text:

    a. ”It is within this bleak natural context that beauty is encountered? (par 10)

    Nature is consistently beautiful alone. From the given statement, it was basically
    about human appreciation of nature. Human has its perception that still want to
    preserve the beauty and minimize the dark side that nature brings.

    b. ..the range of what a given community finds beautiful in nature will depend

    upon its means of survival, its economy, its geography.” (par 12)

    What is true and beautiful are oftentimes preserved as something rare,


    something that comes along once in a blue moon in this accelerating world. This
    yearning to cherish forever what seems to be flicker of happiness is the underlying
    current of art.

    3. What is aesthetic emotion? Relate it to art.

    Aesthetic emotion is an emotion grounded deeply in all humans. It exists in an


    individual when he or she is fascinated by the unique beauty of a work of art, a form, or
    a word that reveals a a deeply intimate yet universal truth. It is something like we think
    about sunrise, sunsets, or waterfall, or even something as simple as a flower, and we
    felt something warmth in our chest. That’s the aesthetic emotion.

    4. Explain the statement in paragraph 16, “All the languages of art have been
    developed as an attempt to transform the instantaneous into the permanent” Give
    examples.

    We humans has infinite desires and one in particular is the desire to immortalize
    a moment of beauty. What is true and beautiful are oftentimes preserved as something
    rare, something that comes along once in a blue moon in this accelerating world. This
    yearning to cherish forever what seems to be flicker of happiness is the underlying
    current of art. Nevertheless, this quest to immortalize a beautiful moment has been
    inducing humanity to venture, to develop, to master a sort of skill that captures that
    moment, to transform the instant into eternal. Art is the clear manifestation of such
    desire and it has been with humanity since we first decided to be one.

    5. Explain and give examples:”Art does not imitate nature, it imitates a creation,
    sometimes to propose an alternative world...” (Paragraph 18)

    Art is not a mere reflection of what is there but it is the expression of what could
    be, what is transcended. It can never be called an art if one is simply a photocopy of
    what is obvious. It has no added value. Art is considered a reflection of creation
    because it (within the Biblical context) has to do with everything that is to become.

      A good example is the floating rocks of "Avatar". A nature was invented for
    them, hence their existence, but we perceive them as what they are because of our
    ability to relate to the invented nature and the subsequent creation of them.

    6. Explain the meaning of paragraph 19. What is the purpose of this ending?

    The ending gives a sort of imagery that shows us a contrast between what is
    real and what can be immortalized from that harsh reality. What is real is the freezing
    temperature that no birds could live. Having the sculpture of a bird, having the imagery
    of warmth and life is in high contrast to what is real. The carved bird is image of a
    transcended possibility which can never be present in a harsh cold winter. The purpose
    of the ending gives as a sense of transformation. That is what art do. It transforms a
    harsh reality into one that is living and beautiful, one that has a sense of feeling thus
    giving it immense value.

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