Aesthetics

industrialization but where used only when the process was unusual. As the sophistication of the industrial organization increased need for technical drawings were essential to control the complex production process. It was a shift from the concentration on the aesthetic aspect of the product to the more technical aspect of the product; as precision was an important factor to keep the products standardized. It also simplified the division of labour in the complex process of making the…

Wu Guanzhong is a contemporary Chinese artist was born on August 29, 1919 and died on June 25, 2010. His works emphasize form and artistic conception through a combination of western and eastern aesthetics. In general, western art focuses on objective and established facts. However, eastern art pays more attention to mood. Wu shows both aspects in his work. Furthermore, Wu explored how to make oil paintings fit Chinese nationalization and the modernization of Chinese Painting. To answer these…

What I find beautiful is something that catches my attention. Say I am walking down the street and see a mural of some sort; I am not going to stop and take a break for just any painting. I stop and look because it catches my attention. Usually being something that I am interested in. Going with that it has to catch my emotions. If it is a happy painting or a sad painting, either in my eyes can be beautiful. If it is trying to portray something meaningful through their artwork using emotions.…

Three words to describe Jen Schwarting’s exhibit are Appropriation, narrative art and snapshot aesthetic. The narrative element is interwoven into the exhibit. The artist provides spectators with the general story of the subjects, drunk girls. However viewers are clueless to the individualized stories of the girls. As well as the relationship between the subjects and the photographers. Viewers can’t help but create or ponder the possibilities of the relationship the that exists between them. The…

taste relate, respectively, to the individual and the social. Stradella speaks of the missing dialectical structure of the essay. Hume has an inclusion of realistic methodical examples, using anecdotes related to “voyage of discovery” that make the aesthetic harder to define. Hume's "Of the Standard of Taste" is often read as an essay in criticism expounding a causal theory of beauty. "I contemplate the structure, and the sculpture causes to arise in me a particular sentiment of beauty. That is…

What Danto thinks about art is illustrated by Duchamp, who created art with the very intent of removing an aesthetic value from it. Duchamp did so in an attempt to demonstrate how art goes far beyond aesthetic. Duchamp art validates Danto’s notion that art is an aesthetic process, but an intellectual process, of which meaning and cognitive thought is deeply embedded within. What Danto thinks about art is supported by Duchamp’s art, which…

trying to establish a bridge for the first and second critics. Because it’s so complicated and long, I will not continue writing on it. Six, noble and teleology <> is a book discusses the beauty and lofty two aesthetic concepts. The beauty and the lofty distinction are that the former is the aesthetic behavior of the subject, the subject's intellectual and imaginative co-ordination, the division of labor, so that the object presents a seeming purpose but not really have a purpose of…

In closing Kant's theory of aesthetics can no longer withstand modern interpretations of beauty. This is due to Kant's oversimplification of subjective judgement, the fact that we cannot empirically prove that his theory of the faculties of understanding and cognition exist, and that modern interpretation of beauty is based on an ideology that are rooted in cultural hegemony. It is through these three notions that we are able to discredit the belief that beauty is both an subjective and…

and, 3) completely new motifs reputedly of foreign origin (ibid.195). Of the Asante craft artists who cater for the tourist market Silver found that many of these artists regularly make aesthetic decisions based on the market demand, decisions that are comparable to those made using a Western concept of aesthetic judgement, insofar as the carvers themselves do not view every object which they produced as beautiful (Sharman: 180). In a his ethnography Silver interviewed at length 81 skilled…

cousin who is by all definitions an artist and he paints western stuff, which does not appeal to me for I prefer Van Gogh and Goya over his paintings but he is still an artist creating art even though it does not appeal to me but others find it aesthetic to them. As for another kind of artist would be my fiancé, who is an Elvis Tribute Artist, which some would not call it art but to many others what he does to them, is art. He sings, dances and wears replicas of Elvis’ jumpsuits, all of which…