Writing – The Medici and the making of modern art

Write a small text in which you address the following issues. If suitable, add concrete examples and illustrations of the point you are making, from as many modalities as you can think of (you can e.g. also add links to online movies or games). The text alone (so excluding the illustrations or images) should be around one page A4.

Hegel once said that art starts when the gods retrieve from nature and take the form of man-made artefacts.

Can you describe how this change occurs in the examples we discussed in our the second viewing assignment? How does this process relate to the T-shaped pillars of Göbekli Tepe?
Can you describe contemporary (cultural) changes or developments that are a result of big capital and mass media? How do these compare with the changes that were occasioned by the Medici during the sixteenth century?
What are contemporary exampes of art and design that are used to further a political agenda?
How does the unity of good, true and beauty that we talked about when we were discussion Laocoön relate to these phenoma?