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Aims:
To introduce students to AoK The Arts
To introduce students to the use of Knowledge Questions in ToK.
To introduce students to the Knowledge Framework
What to do:
Find an image of one of your favourite paintings, or an image from a clip from a favourite film, or a sample of some favourite music, or words from a favourite poem etc.
Jot down 4-6 reasons why you chose this painting/film/music/poem etc
Look at the Knowledge Questions from AoK The Arts (linked).
Can you use the favourite artistic artefact that you have chosen to help you to answer any of the Knowledge Questions ?
Write a short (max 10 lines) response to how your chosen artefact helps to start to answer one of the knowledge questions from AoK The Arts (exemplar below).
Painting: Black Lives Matter by Banksy.
KQ: Do the Arts have the power to challenge established moral values.
The painting shows the American flag being burned by a candle lit for a memorial to a black man. It was painted during the Black Lives Matters protests in USA in the wake of the murder of George Floyd in 2020.
The painting shows that the Arts have the capacity to challenge the moral values of specific sectors of the population. Whether the arts have 'the power' depends upon how we define power. If power is merely capacity then this is evidential by the existence of the painting. However if power requires a change in those moral values then this piece of artwork alone does not establish that ability.
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