Aesthetics

When I first started the semester, the only real exposure I had to any of the arts was the music I listened to, two art museums and Bharatanatyam, a classical dance from India. Many events and readings later, I find myself with more insight in the arts. I have much more appreciation for all of the various arts, specifically ballet, opera, and the orchestra. Prior to this semester, I always held a biased disinterest in these types of performances due to the fact that I didn 't feel the need to…

Fine arts...fine arts is “creative art, especially visual art, whose products are to be appreciated primarily are solely for their imaginative, aesthetic, or intellectual content(googles definition).” Fine arts are mainly introduced to kids in school. Some schools can afford to have fine art programs while others just can’t. In this essay I will be talking about the history of fine arts and how it effects out schools. With fine arts there are many things you need to understand. Fine arts isn’t…

Lesson: Propaganda Art of WWII Grade Level: Fourth Grade Unit: How does History Affect Art? In this unit, students will look at how what was happening at a specific point affected the art of that time. There are two lessons in this unit: 1. Propaganda Art of WWII, and 2. Art of the Great Depression. Objectives: By the conclusion of this lesson, all students will be able to: 1.) Discuss the propaganda art of WWII and will be able to explain its purpose and how it spread orally [art history].…

yet, “it is carried out as part of the craft rather than as an art, generally quite neatly but without either much imagination or care” (1988, 370). Perhaps for the Mafa potters, decoration was not a form of self expression nor a means to add an aesthetic appeal to the piece. Instead it was viewed as a standardized feature as necessary to the structure of the pot as a handle or spout. It is possible as well that decoration gave potters a means to identify their work with the tradition from which…

In this essay I will address what Suzanne Langer has to say about the measure of ideas, the symbol of feeling, and semblance. She claims that aesthetic experiences are ones that satisfy our primitive needs. We can find her discussion of the topic in chapter 3 of her book Feeling and Form. The first part of the book I’d like to focus on is chapter 3, or the symbol of feeling. Suzanne starts off by saying: “... ‘expression of the idea’ is ‘expression’ in still a different sense and, indeed, a…

He also has had commissions in illustration and graphic design projects. All his work has a similar aesthetic, but it seems to mimic the carving style of his woodblocks. Abstracted geometric forms of both humans and objects are the primary subjects of his work. The forms are flat and don’t communicate depth through the mode of linear perspective, but rather through layering or size. His aesthetic ranges from simpler clean cut design to a freer more sporadic approach. His design work, often…

focus on a single event defining a character’s life philosophy as bildungsromans. Set in nineteenth-century England, Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray recounts Dorian Gray’s growth from a young man to an adult in the midst of the growing aesthetic movement, with his friend Lord Henry Wotton introducing him to its morality. After their first encounter, Lord Henry’s hedonistic values corrupt Dorian by causing him to worship youth and beauty, as seen through Dorian’s reaction to their first…

admirable. His work ethic and ability to continually fight for his others and human rights is inspiring as he has never given up, and has used his own experiences to fight for what he believes in even more. They way that he creates each piece not for aesthetic purpose or pleasure but to communicate ideas which promote social and political change. His simple actions designed to call attention to the humanitarian crises is very interesting and clever. With each piece he has created a strong…

during the Postmodern era we can understand why artists such as Tracey Emin, Cindy Sherman, The Chapman Brothers chose to reject traditional aesthetics instead conveying their intentions through shocking subjects and media to convey their intentions to the audience. “In both Britain and New York contemporary artists have shunned the tradition of aesthetics, preferring to communicate their meaning through shocking subjects and media, what is now referred to as the “abject”. Their use of shocking…

The departure from our shared sentiments, when presented as being universally accessible, provokes our minds and frustrates our Sanchez 4 understandings of beauty in the world. To speak with the revered universal voice then, is to engage in a charitable negotiation of incompatible, yet self-determined, sentiments. We employ others to share in the not-so-necessary necessary pleasures we experience. But why is it worth the trouble? With Hume we know our sentiments are self-determined, and with…