Describe your choice of an example of a meme, a narrative from a myth or story (from a written source, from movies or tv, etc.), a painting or poem, or some similar piece of art, and explain how it functions as a piece of art according to the theory of “art as expression”. In your explanation, make reference to material from the three lectures in the first lesson: those on Tolstoy, Collingwood, and Dilthey. Hint: The Collingwood lecture should help you explain what it means to say that this piece of art expresses emotion, the Dilthey lecture should help you explain what purpose this expression of emotion serves or what we learn from having this experience of the art, and the Tolstoy lecture should help you explain how this experience of art forms relationships among those who have it. But don’t just repeat this information from the lectures, use these ideas to help illustrate how the particular example you have chosen functions as a piece of art, according to these theories. Classical aesthetics has been traditionally understood as proposing certain criteria that good art must meet, perhaps most famously in the structure of a cohesively written three act play. Explain the philosophical basis of this ideal proposed by classical aesthetics, and in your explanation make reference to material from the three lectures in the third lesson: those on Plato, Aristotle, and Mendelssohn. Hint: The Mendelssohn lecture should help you explain what beauty is in this tradition, the Plato lecture should help you explain what beauty is accomplishing in relation to two dimensions of human experience, and the Aristotle lecture should help you explain how these philosophical principles produce the criteria espoused by classical aesthetics when it comes to actually producing a piece of art, like a three act play.