Aesthetics

The concept of aesthetics has been long subjected to debates. As Plato once stated that the beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Based from the literatures, western culture has dominated the concept of beauty. Western features like small pointed nose, chiseled face, big eyes and fair skin are favored by people from different culture. Media played a big role in influencing people as to what the norms of beauty are like. The color of the skin has been associated with wealth and power. This idea…

I examine the Impressionists and the role they played in challenging the pre-conceived notions of what art could be at the time. I then move onto the topic of aesthetics and the role beauty has played in the art world. Clive Bell’s significant form theory – the success of a work of art comes from a combination of its lines, colours and shapes – is then explored before I move onto the art as expression theory and…

The definition of beauty is as follows "a combination of qualities, such as shape, color, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight." Although this may be factual, everyone has their own personal definition of what beauty is and how it is classified. For me, beauty is a calm, it envelopes you with a sense of awe: it makes you stop and ponder at it. Most of the time, in my eyes, beauty resides in nature. It is an even blend of visual elements and the emotions they awake.…

of the clock shows multiple, differently styled gears connected. I believe this certainly adds to the gears/cogs and contraptions sections of my criteria. However, the example lacks a strong copper and rustic colour which does not help with its aesthetics. To improve, an airship could be added to the second or minute hand and a top hat cut out could be added to the top of the device to further explore the steampunk theme. This is a rather simple but effective design. One concerning factor about…

Rose offers the Holocaust piety to examine the dangers of private, individual mourning. She does this by drawing on Goethe’s story, Wilhelm Meisters Apprenticeship and ‘the beautiful soul’. ‘The beautiful soul’ is ‘a learned but sickly female,’ who ‘retires from the world to cultivate her deepening religious piety, but … fails to find any means of public expression, or any bridge back into ethical and political life,’ and thus, she ‘pines away in consumption and dies’ (Rose, 1993: 178).…

“The domain of art is not one in which the Party is called upon to command. It can and must protect and help it, but it can only lead it indirectly. It can and must give the additional credit of its confidence to various art groups, which are striving sincerely to approach the revolution and so help an artistic formulation of the revolution.” (Trotsky). This conception of art by Leon TROTSKY reflects the mainstream position of the communist party toward the cultural and artistic life in Russia…

The publication “The Museum as Context” by Amy Tucker analyzes the environment of the museum and how culture and context is changed depending on the environment art is presented in. The purpose of art exhibitions is to show the audience an organized presentation of particular art pieces. The question raised in this chapter is whether the organization of the presentation is precise to represent each piece of work and does this representation distort the meaning of a piece. There are many ways art…

When observing an object, there is an uncanny feeling that is a result of the emotional response human beings obtain. This unique feeling is what makes art so special. The ability to provide escapism in a world of chaos is an asset provided from art. Art is life and vice versa. Therefor, art must be given more emphasis in curricula. Due to its absence in the modern education system, society has grown to become more adapt at looking at art for the wrong reasons. Commercialized art has become the…

Many people define beauty as the way someone looks or how much they weigh or if they have a certain skin type. Beauty is defined as a combination of qualities, such as shape, color, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially sight. But beauty is so much more than someone’s appearance. Beauty standards have changed significantly in the years. Beauty use to be modesty, light makeup, and being simple. But now beauty is all about having a nice body, having clear skin, or having…

Hap likes traditional art such as paintings shown when he “let a strange young man camp out on [his] place … to sketch [his] farm equipment” (3) but does not understand the aesthetic value of a ball of burned barb wire. He only prefers figural art in traditional expression while some of Warhol’s art features ordinary items such as the box sculptures he had brought to the exhibition in 1965. Hap would likely react in the same…