Concepts in aesthetics

Introduction Use your introduction to explain how the question is related to subject, why it makes an interesting study that is worth researching, and how you plan to discuss it. Effect of color + distortion- elaborate Compare+ contrast artists How it is influnce by the emotional aspect To what extent do expressionists portray their emotions through the use of vivid colour and distortion? Vivid colour and distortion are the important elements in expressionist art that play a significant…

What is Nietzsche’s moral point of view? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, wrote diverse texts on contemporary culture, morality, religion and so on. Many scholars are unsettled whether Nietzsche is an ethical relativist, an ethical egoist or a moral perfectionist. Foremost, we need to define each theory. In ethics, an ethical relativist is a person who belief that the definition of something right or wrong depends on the prevailing view of a specific person, an historical period or a…

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…

Self-predication: the Form of Beauty is itself beautiful. But this is different from the way in which all other beautiful things are beautiful. Every other beautiful thing is beautiful because it ‘participates in’ the Form of Beauty; but the Form simply is beautiful. It is what it is in virtue of itself. This also provides an explanation of why things that participate in Beauty are beautiful: participating in Beauty makes a particular thing beautiful because the Form is itself beautiful. Beauty…

Art, what is art? Well art means “the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power” (dictionary). Art is also the various branches of creative activity, such as painting, music, literature, and dance. A basic meaning of art is hidden (under) a plan/purpose to attract to, and relate with, human emotion. Art can awaken/stimulate and…

Due to the Parthenon desecration and dilapidation on behalf of Great Britain, writer Christopher Hitchens argues that the original Parthenon sculptures must be returned to Greece, in his article "The Lovely Stones". The author uses allusions to history and art, sensory details and actual facts in order to deliver a convincing argument. Hitchens starts the second paragraph off by recounting the Parthenon history. Centuries of perversions, abuse and desecration were suffered by this magnificent…

If one is observing a painting of Pollock without any interaction with it, that would not mean she/he does not enjoy the aesthetic part of the artwork. I prefer to describe the importance of an interactive environment after discussing the possible definition of this word. Stern in his book cited an interactive situation let participant have moving-thinking-feeling. In fact,…

Kantian ethics is a deontological moral theory. The criterion of rightness is that an act is right if and only if it is logically derived and therefore universally right. The decision procedure of Kantian ethics is to discover what action is logical, and do it. The rightness or wrongness of the action does not depend on their consequence but on whether they fulfill our duty. Immanuel Kant believed that there was a supreme principle of morality, and he referred to it as the categorical imperative…

William Yager Is it Art or is it not? An Argument for a Better Understanding As an animation major and having previously been a fine arts major I have had a good deal of experience in art, both traditional and contemporary. In my studies I have found that the subject of contemporary art amongst those who are unfamiliar with it is often met with confusion or disdain. Typically people do not understand what they are viewing or they do not seek understanding deeper than their initial notion. More…

Subjectivity influences an individual when judging beauty in an object by projecting onto the object and categorising it as pleasure or displeasure. When a man labels something beautiful, he must regard it as on what he may also presuppose in every other person; and therefore, he must believe that he has a reason for demanding a similar delight from everyone (cp 64). Kant believes the requirement for calling an object universally beautiful is the elimination of subjectivity through reason. In…