I Think , Therefore I am .

“ If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things”.                               
                                                                                               - Rene Descartes

The guy was trying to figure out if he could prove that he existed, cause it was trendy then to try to prove what all existed and whether or not anything actually existed at all. They had a lot of time on their hands.

He decided that the proof of his own existence was in the observation that he thought - had a mind that could think. So he decided that because he could think, he must exist.

“ I think. Therefore I am"

On a side note, this very guy once walked into a bar and ordered a drink. Bartender brought him a drink. After a while the barkeep noticed his glass was near empty. Another drink, Mr. Descartes?

Urmmph what else that I can describe more from the phrase yeah ? ahaaaa…I think that Descartes identified that something exists, but he may have been in error as to what that 'I' is. All he knew was that thoughts showed up in his mind, and he claimed authorship over those thoughts, assuming the human was the source of them, and therefore the existent entity. 

It can be observed that thought arise spontaneously. There is no one choosing what thoughts to think. It has also been demonstrated that brain motor activity can begin before a conscious choice is even made, implying that there really is no chooser.

Many spiritual systems of belief hold that, that which actually exists forms the mind/body as a vehicle of perception. This Existence is Consciousness and is not the mind. Therefore, Descartes's declaration becomes, 'I AM, therefore I think.'

That’s all for now, I hope you all now have a better understanding of what Descartes was trying to say.

So, do our old pal Descartes a favor folks and keep thinking, lest you may cease to exist!

Which part of the Late 18th century would greatly affect modern design ?

POP! Art was based on the consumer culture of the 1950s and 60s. The culture of this time was based upon conformity and mass production and consumption due to the flourishing economy of Post World War II.

Whaam! (1963) Roy Lichtenstein

One of the greatest modern paintings

The term Pop Art was coined in 1956 by Richard Hamilton's "Just What Makes Today's Home So Different, So Appealing?" which is a work of art that features many products that would be seen in the American home. To Andy Warhol, another well known Pop artist, said Pop art would be of images that people would immediately recognize.

For example, Warhol had repeating images of coke bottles and Campbell soup cans to represent the mass reproduction of the consumer society.

Campbells Soup (1968). Warhol

Therefore i think in this art movement had affect the most in the 18^th century, the artists were more to the tangible objects than abstraction. They used all the materials of everyday in the popular culturesuch as canned goods, science fiction and comic strips.

The entire idea behind Pop Art does not relate so much to the art itself as to the attitudes of the artists about the pieces.

To date, this Pop culture and pop art makes the contemporary art more related to pop culture and less abstract. It was based on the idea of making a works message more easy to understood by the society. The pop culture were more popular with art forms in paintings or in the form of sculpture. Sometimes, the items were flags, tires, animals and popular target images. This movement is trying to get rid off the dullness to modern abstract painting.

And then, the media advertisement and TV also involved in promoting the pop movement. It shows the pop culture became more popular. In modern painting also evolved the pop culture movement to the society. Today the pop art movement has become an important element of the modern painting era.

Pop art is lots of things that high-art isn't - it's mass-produced, it is expendable, it is low-cost, glamorous, witty and encourages big bucks, bright lights and big celebrities - there's no sign of the impoverished artist slaving away in a tiny studio in this movement. However, it's light-hearted sensibilities have been negated by some critics; Harold Rosenberg described Pop art as being 'Like a joke without humour, told over and over again until it begins to sound like a threat... Advertising art which advertises itself as art that hates advertising.'

Is Pop art a serious comment on the contemporary condition – are the Pop artists cynical of the growing mass-media, material culture or is it simply just popular art – accessible, bright and glossy?