What terms do we use to describe and evaluate art?
What terms do we use to describe and evaluate art, and how do we judge if art is good, and if it is for the social good?
The two-year study, larger and more systematic than many efforts to scientifically evaluate art's impact, separated musical elements — rhythm, melody, timbre — to see effects on heartbeat, breathing, sucking, alertness and sleep.
Reactions to the sculptures found in newspaper articles (n = 37) and in interviews (n = 82) conducted at the sites of the sculptures reveal that receivers evaluate art using a "contextual eye".
It also allows serious collectors and critics to discover and evaluate art without bias.
Receiver operating characteristic curves were used to evaluate ART-concentration threshold cutoffs for virologic suppression, after excluding those with known high-level resistance mutations.Among 280 young people enrolled, 227 were included in the final analysis.
There's no solid ground to evaluate art.
So those who ask science for ultimate answers, or to explain the fundamentals of existence, are looking in the wrong place -- like asking particle physics to evaluate art.
"Well into the 20th century," wrote Kendrick in The Secret Museum, "…the emphasis fell on the opposite side," encouraging people to evaluate art in terms of their own social mores.
