Aesthetics

have begun in 1565 with the restoration of the Sistine Chapel frescoes, but more ancient examples include the work of Cassiodorus. The care of art or historical peace’s has a long history, one that primarily focused on fixing or mending art for its aesthetic enjoyment, but originally the restoration of an art peace use to be taken care by the original artist. It wasn’t until the 19th century when art and science actually merge to study the decaying effects of art pieces. Michael Faraday was one…

“The Pure Products of America Go Crazy” is a photo exhibition recently installed at Pratt Institute featuring the works of artists Lucas Blalock, Owen Kydd, and John Lehr. These photographers celebrate, as the name suggest, the pure products of America in their images; they find beauty in banal objects that represent the residue of a pursuit of American living. In doing so, they also emphasize the role that the camera itself, as well as post-production digital tools, have in creating value to…

In American culture, aesthetic beauty, especially when it concerns women and their faces, are highly valued. In Lucy Grealy’s memoir, Autobiography of a Face, she examines and criticizes society’s excessive emphasis of impossible beauty standards, and how such ideas can negatively impact a young girl’s self-esteem. She tells the story of how her disfigurement in her lower right jaw caused by cancer brought her into an unending life of bullying, weariness from failed surgical procedures, and…

unspecified hero-worker of the new communalist state. Its easy arithmetical basics, assembled into compound structures, recommended (or in the case of the few realized projects, memorialized) the cooperation of men hefting strengthen beams. The aesthetic was both more intangible and more implied than anything that had gone before – a noticeable impossibility that in the event caused the Soviet community no complexity at all. Red and black, circles and glass, steel and triangles worked then and…

The practice of writing-whether it was to contextualize their own work, or that of their peers through analytical and critical writing-became an increasingly common practice among artists during the 1960’s. This was perhaps a consequence of the sudden increase in accessibility of university education and graduate degrees in fine arts in the mid 20th century. One such writer-artist was Dan Graham, who consistently published various written works related to his artistic production over more than…

people just don't like that medium. Just because you don't like it as much as, say for example, a painting, doesn't automatically make it not an art form. The definition of art is the quality, the production of it, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful and appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.…

What is art and what art is have been very controversial topics of discussion for centuries. Art is a very opinionated subject, and many people tend to share different views when it comes to art. To this day, we still do not have one solid, universally agreed upon definition of art. This makes it very hard to decide what is art, and what is not, considering we do not have a perfectly correct guideline to follow. Philosophers and artists have been sharing their beliefs on the argument of art for…

In some cases artifacts were not made to be focused and praised for their aesthetic value, in exception to when the class learned the Minoan culture made art for it’s own sake and embellished beauty. However, in most cultures well done craftsmanship, technique, idealized concepts were appreciated, such as the Egyptian pyramids,…

In modern day society, imagery and subtlety is bombarded upon the world’s population, forcing to a degree, to make people perceive life and others in the way media presents us and advertisers employ a powerful strategy to sell a sense of worth and value that is only attainable if you purchase the right products. 
Now, the idea of portraying and selling a sense of value is in essence saying that this worthiness can only be bought and conformity is of a requirement to achieve this value. But what…

Taste in beauty is a subjective thing and every person has a different taste. However, Kant and Hume view differently on the taste of beauty. Hume claims “every individual ought to acquiesce in his own sentiment, without pretending to regulate those of others.”(268-269) Whereas Kant thinks even though taste in beauty is subjective, people are still demanding others’ agreement. Thus, taste in beauty is subjectively universal. Hume defines the standard of taste as “a rule, by which the carious…