"Universality of Art and Art's Power to Make Social Statements"
John Bailly, an art Fellow at the Honors College at Florida International University, spoke on January 15, 2013, about the universality of art and its power to make social statements. He examined the heroic pose of Alexander the Great in various works of art, and how that pose has been used to portray leadership ever since.
Bailly's own work, currently focusing on Pascal's Triangle and the Fibonacci numbers, explores the ways that we process information. Bailly's work in the Honors College includes the direction of the Aesthetics and Values program, which he founded. He also teaches three classes: The Origin of Ideas; and the Idea of Origins, Inhabiting Other Lives; and Aesthetics & Values: Art as Social Language. He has won two Excellence in Teaching awards and a European Union grant for curriculum development.
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