Concepts in aesthetics

Making the most out of the stage: Tips to steal the show People uses stage often to highlight their artistic skills or sometimes to connect with the public in general in case on any public speech or group discussions etc. That doesn’t mean people love to be on stage as the focal point of attention. You may relate yourself with this situation. You along with many people have been a victim of stage fright on several occasions. Before performing on stage or giving a long public speech, you may feel…

The Discobolus ( Discus Thrower) Artist was a man named Myron. Date of its creation is 460-450 BC. Housed in the National Museum of Rome, showed at the palazzo massimo. Theme- The discus thrower was a sign of nobility of the human beings, it represents beauty of the male body in sport and what man can achieve. The Discobolus, also known as the “Discus Thrower” was one of the first statues to be made and positioned the way it was. It showed great strength and athleticism…

In ancient Greece during the Archaic period, youth and athleticism were highly valued when creating statues. Both Kroisos, from 530 BCE and the Kritios Boy, from 480 BCE were both nude and had some form of muscular features sculpted onto them. However, the Kroisos has a stiff posture and is realistic while the Kritios Boy is more naturalistic and shows the first form of contrapposto. Both the Kroisos and Kritios Boy are made of marble and have muscular features carved onto the bodies. They…

Identity is made up of who people are and characteristics that define them. Overtime, artists express the concept of identity through portraits, self-portraits, photography, videography and many more medias. The concept of identity is popular with many artists as it allows them to write their own story through art and to express whom they truly are and to not be trapped into whom society thinks they are. Identity is the way we perceive and express ourselves. Circumstances and factors that an…

The Love of Art written by Bourdieu, Darbel, and Schnapper, share that rather than just having a taste for the art through a learned culture, people “should be capable of creating natural preferences by their own power” (Bourdieu, 2). When I read the statement made by Bourdieu, “how individuals throughout history have had vague understandings of art that they admire”. As an artist, I did not agree with his statement. I believe everyone can admire art in the way the artwork is speaking to them.…

that the liking is based on observation and experience in the now and does not concern the feeling but merely the sensation. A liking for the Agreeable is to like or prefer an object that gratifies one’s senses and what makes one feel good. This concept is highly subjective given that each individual faces varying degrees and standards of what gives them pleasure. However, what one could find agreeable isn’t necessarily what one could find pleasurable since it does not require a standard scale…

Sublime Industry and Risky Aesthetics: A Comparison of Edward Burtynsky’s OIL and Karen Solie’s “Bitumen” Karen Solie’s poem “Bitumen” (2015) and Edward Burtynsky’s photography collection OIL (2009) both question the adequacy of sublime aesthetics as a representational mode for depicting the effects of industry. I will explore how the oil industry is represented as sublime in Burtynsky’s OIL and the critical and ironic distance this representation requires. Informing this will be historical…

“All Nations Have Their Moment of Foolishness” Richard Notkin who had wrote the statement of, ¨All Nations Have Their Moment of Foolishness¨, has left many readers with different feelings towards his ceramics. Richard Notkin has sculptural teapots that have explored the complex environment with impacts of contemporary human civilizations. Notkin quoted, “I find myself in a transitional phrase that is quite challenging and often difficult, but necessary to the evolution and growth of my art”,…

We have all asked ourselves “What is Beauty?” Beauty can be defined as the qualities of a person that gives pleasure to one's senses. The day we are born, we are all considered to be beautiful, inside and out. As we grow, each of us develops our own unique personality. This is the point at which the inner beauty and the outer beauty either become one or part ways. Inner beauty and outer beauty are subjective. Both types of beauty play a major impact in life through first impressions, jobs,…

Heidegger Understands Your Feelings In The Basic Problems of Phenomenology, Martin Heidegger elaborates on Kant's understanding of the self as “personalitas moralis” by declaring, “Kant's interpretation of the phenomenon of respect is probably the most brilliant phenomenological analysis of the phenomenon of morality that we have from him”.1 While Heidegger admits that Kant's interpretation of respect is brilliant, he also concludes that Kant did not go deep enough into the analysis of…