in our previous video we discussed that there is a difference between the words art and entertainment and I elaborated on the concept of art and I left you with a definition of entertainment which is the pleasure afforded by being amused so let's talk about entertainment and how it is different than art entertainment is therefore our joy therefore our pleasure all right this in my traditional courses is where I usually step on a few toes I'll say how many of you in here paint you know or write music is something usually I'll say pain and it'll be one person one or two people who will raise their hands and I'll say you know how we've all been taught and I'll say this to you as well how to paint that infamous bowl of fruit all of us somewhere along the line have had to take some painting course somewhere and we're taught to paint that bowl of fruit or that landscape or that base full of flowers and this sort of thing I will look at that student I'll say okay well guess what I'm here academically to argue that no matter how good of a job you do painting that bowl of fruit it can look like a photograph it could look so real that you think you can reach in there and grab the Apple oh that pull of fruit and eat that thing yourself no matter how good it is I will argue then academically intellectually that bowl of fruit is not a work of art it is a piece of entertainment go back to the definition of our last video art being man's attempt to capture the human spirit and touch upon intellectually elusive meanings you know if you if you were to ask me tell me something about your wife and I point to a bowl of fruit well I'm going to be a trouble after giving an answer like that the bowl of fruit doesn't change us it doesn't move us it doesn't capture who we are or what we've become or where we came from or anything like that it's just pretty it's just well done it's got a bunch of colors that the room and a beautiful frame and it's the right size to fit that void on the wall you know maybe you've just read models your dining room and it's Thanksgiving and you got all the extended family coming over you have beautiful autumn colors on the curtains and the walls and the cherry wood furniture all of this but there's that little void on the wall and you've run to Walmart or Kmart or wherever you go and you try to find something and there's this cheap printed image of a bowl of fruit with an imitation cherry stain but it seems to match the stuff that's in that revitalized dining room you come home you put it on the wall the colors in the bowl of fruit matches the curtains and everything else you go wow that finishes the job and people come over and they look at you and say oh this room is beautiful I love this I love the cherry dinette set I love the curtains hey where'd you get that bowl of fruit Walmart $9.99 there's ten more just like it on a rack go get you one of those there really that's all it is it doesn't mean it isn't well done it might be much better done than many works of art that's another word craft that we'll get into in another video but it just has entertaining qualities there are now let's let's consider that for one second let's consider that the the ball of fruit and all of its components Leonardo da Vinci might have I'm saying a Titanic for a minute might have painted many a bowl of fruit many a landscape are many a base full of flowers he did not his hang at his add-on with pride he didn't he did consider them works of art we don't consider them works of art he just used them to pay the electric bill I know no electricity back there in that day you get my point it was how he made his living now he had other pieces that stood the test of time artistically and so forth but he painted a lot of stuff not all of it was art some of it just had entertaining qualities so there's where the bowl of fruit is this wall over here in our house and on that wall let's put another image I don't know the terminology for this you have to take somebody's painting class or something I'll call it the spritz split-screen image that's when you have a canvas with maybe two opposing images in the same frame' on the same canvas one side you have this the other side you have this and together they deliver a message and on one side of this image you have a stereotypical overweight eight-year-old American boys 35 pounds overweight he's in a McDonald's Playland sitting on some bench with big bulging greedy eyes you know with a happy meal on his lap throwing chicken nuggets over his shoulder to get to that little bitty plastic robot or car or whatever it is they have the bottom of a happy meal these days I don't have to worry about that one anymore and we all know that image that image alone says a lot about who we are what we become but let's compare it to the other side of the canvas in another image where we have another eight-year-old boy and this little boy is Ethiopian anyways under 60 pounds and he's skin and bones and he has the bulging eyes as well we know what that's all about but he also has that same excited greedy if you will look on his face like the other eight-year-old boy because in his hands he's holding the orange from that bowl of fruit same orange same brush same brushstrokes same technique same painter but in this painting that orange is playing his partner work of art where the other painting it was playing its part in a piece of entertainment that's the difference between aren't entertainment it's not it's not in the ability or just the fact that somebody's good at something it's in the attempt man's attempt to capture the human spirit which is what's been done on these opposing image of eight-year-old boys as opposed to the pleasure of fawning afforded by being amused which is what we see in the painting of the ball of fruit where the Orangemen is over here versus the world that it's the purpose that it's serving in this painting over here that's your difference between art and entertainment folks the beauty of the theater what you're going to start talking about in our next video the beauty of the theater is we get to sneak the art in on our audiences while they are being entertained sometimes they don't even know it that's that's what the theater is all about we put all this spectacle and movement sound and stuff and a storyline and people get wrapped up in it and at the end of the night they may have learned something about themselves they may be changed a little bit because of the artistic effort but really they paid money to be entertained let me give you one more term let's talk about art we've talked about entertainment I want to now talk about theater I'm not going to give you a definition of theater we're gonna do that through the course of this semester but I'm going to to tell you that the word theater comes from the word theater on which means seating place the world theater comes from the Greek word theater on which translated means seating place so what is this course about this course is about all of the art all of the entertainment and the craft which we'll talk about on another day that comes together in a collaborative effort in the seeing place in the theater on the art in the entertainment that comes together in this building called the theater and those and that in a nutshell is what we're going to talk about as we try to develop an appreciation and an understanding of what takes place with full-scale theatrical production