Aesthetics

In terms of this paper, first I will clarify the aesthetic attitude and then I will do such for the practical attitude. But first why are these terms important in answering the question. In his opening statements, Stolnitz notes that “an attitude organizes and directs our awareness of the world” (33). Using…

Jackson Pollock was an abstract artist whose paintings have a deeper meaning than they seem to have. Everything he put on a canvas represented a form of expression whether through chalk or paint splatters. It was a way for him to be vulnerable and put his thoughts into a body of work. Pollock was a fan of John Cage’s music, because Cage too was pushing normal artistic views. Cage was introduced to the idea of Abstract Expressionism by an exhibit by Mark Tobey. He realized that art could just…

Aesthetic attraction is more affected by environment and upbringing, what influenced them growing up. Sensual and emotional attraction usually take place in a familial circumstance; children love their parents in a different sense than they love their pets. Emily Smith, freelance journalist for many reputable publications such as the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, states “Kindness (along with emotional stability) is the most important predictor of satisfaction and stability in a…

My aesthetic is eclectic and less than focused, and I feel it’s easiest for me to verbalize the range of opinions I have about art through movie examples. My favorite movie is a 2005 Disney live-action film about teens going to a high school for superheroes called Sky High. There is very little that is “challenging to the viewer” about Sky High; it’s essentially a John Hughes movie with superheroes, right down to the soundtrack which is built entirely of covers of 80s new-wave hits. There is…

life can be announced as poetry . The aesthetic rhythm presents the audience with a gulling fiction of love, nature, hate, and suspense. Time has developed where a spread of hip hop artists are boasting about their work of writing, and developing a poem atmosphere in their music. The profession is the poet: we fail to shed light on those who have inspired others in being great, and those who begin a new movement for others to follow. Those would be…

In “The Vice of Snobbery,” Kieran confronts a major concern facing aesthetic knowledge: snobbery. Snobbery is a concern, he argues, precisely because it threatens the very foundation of aesthetic judgments. As a result, it is critical for Kieran to distinguish between virtuous art appreciators – whose aesthetic judgments are legitimate, and snobs – whose aesthetic judgments depend on irrelevant considerations. I will argue that while Kieran’s account of snobbery seems accurate, it brings with it…

works of art. He believes that for something to be considered art, it has to have specific necessary and sufficient features. It is necessary that the piece has significant form in order for it to be art. Significant form provides us with an aesthetic emotion, which is only brought on by visual art. Representation, or seeing a piece of art for what it truly is, is contrary to Bell’s theory because he believes it is irrelevant and that the true meaning of the visual art is found by detaching…

Artists have used collections to group together different objects to create art pieces. Collections can be diverse and artists can use this technique to create unique pieces that harness their own aesthetics. Both George Herm and Jean Dubuffet are artists who have used this technique. George Herm’s, The Painter’s Mind features an old piece of wood with two L shaped brackets, an orange bottlecap glued to a scrappy piece of paper and a ripped off piece of paper from the book: The Painter’s mind,…

In 'Moderate Moralism', Carroll (1996) argues that artistic autonomy does not preclude a moral approach to artworks. That is, unlike autonomism, which holds that aesthetic evaluations of artworks are always autonomous from moral components, some works of art trade in moral emotions as part of their aesthetic form. In this analysis I will briefly explain Carroll's argument, which focuses on narrative artworks, and is contrasted with autonomism in both its radical and moderate forms. Although…

distinctions he makes is between matter of intuition and form of intuition. It was important to Kant to distinguish the difference between these two terms because they play a vital role in the first part of his book which is the ‘Transcendental Aesthetic.’ Kant’s book is significant because he overcomes the division between empiricism and rationalism. According to Kant, all knowledge is not derived from sensation, nor is all knowledge derived from reason. Kant demonstrates to us that all…