Concepts in aesthetics

Alfred Stieglitz. Accompanied by pure photography style, Stieglitz was instrumental in helping make photography the fine art, and this eye-catching image, Winter, Fifth Avenue, is one of his best known works captured in 1892, which is no doubt an aesthetic art. As a whole, Stieglitz unified this image by the aid of natural elements—rain and snow, which perfectly depicted the scene that the storm swallowed dark horses, the carriage, as well as the man who struggled or probably competed with the…

In Chapter 7 of Ways of Seeing, Berger mainly talks about publicity images, which "never speak of the present" but "often refer to the past and always speak of the future" (p 130). In another word, publicity offers its future buyer an image of himself/herself became glamorous by the product or its related opportunities (p 132). Indeed, this kind of illusion of authority is also incorporated into lots of traditional oil paintings; and in this regard, publicity and oil paintings share tons of…

Steve Cutts and Banksy are both artists working in the same time period, but with very different views and outlooks on life, Banksy appears to be very political and has a lot to say, he comes across as a very determined person with a very opinionated attitude, because we know very little about Banksy or his identity, may we assume that he is of working class background and that he uses his art as a platform to voice his opinion and to change the way people think. Cutts on the other hand is…

For my project, I designed Iris’s costume. I chose Iris because she is a goddess. This makes my image of her very versatile and differ. What do I mean by versatile? I mean that I can put any aspect into the design and any personality, because a goddess is beyond a human and has this majestic image to them. In addition, I chose the style I did because when I think of Iris I think of mystical. For example, I chose to put purple elements in the dress because purple is the color of royalty and…

While reading chapter three Nussbaum’s book, Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education, I noticed several connections to Brooks’ article, When Beauty Strikes. In many ways, Nussbaum agrees with Brooks’ argument about the power of beauty in art, or in this case literature. Like Brooks, Nussbaum argues that social change can come about through art. She first makes this claim on page 94 when she writes, “…the artistic form makes its spectator perceive, for a time, the…

process. Therefore, certain visual cues, such as the color blue which suppresses appetite, signal the brain that affect appetite and appeal. The color of a dish is important when examining the evolutionary syntax and the comprehensive nature of aesthetics and the human eye. In the classic children’s book Green Eggs and Ham, Seuss adeptly identifies the aversion to unfamiliar…

Kant introduce a method to determine whether or not the ethical system would be considered to be morally right, morally wrong, or somewhere beyond the moral realm (Guthrie, S., 2001). His source for moral justification was the categorical imperative. An imperative is considered to have two option; hypothetical or categorical. Kant speculation was if the action is good only as a means to something else, then the imperative is hypothetical; if it was considered as good in itself and resulting…

The first line of criticism is reasonable. Because we apply moral criticism to someone’s moral sentiments, on the assumption that they are capable of improvement, and that they reflect moral credit or discredit on a person . Hutcheson tries to explain some criticisms of a particular agent’s moral sense, by reference to the moral sense of the ‘normal’ observer. For Hutcheson ‘normal’ just means ‘statistically most frequent’. Though Smith objects this, he never put forward something more to…

erected as a public experience, it lacks cultural impact in the aspect of framework design. In contrast to the Oklahoma museum, the Tampa museum has artworks that connect human history from different time period group into sections. The Tampa museum created a whole different life impression about the significance of museums than the Oklahoma museum. From time immemorial, humans have created visual images and these images carry meaning based on their context of creation. Art is appreciated from…

When it comes to the matter of appearance, beauty is craved by most people. But, what does it cost to be beautiful? Everyone is beautiful in a unique way but, that reasoning is not good enough for everyone. Many people want to enhance their beauty and to display it with more pride, and as we know there are many beauty products that can easily be purchased. It seems good to be true, but to most great things, there is always a downside. By applying beauty products you are endangering your body,…