2-Philosophical Foundations of Art Flashcards
FUNCTIONS OF ART
personal function
social function
physical function
music
Function of art that is varied and highly subjective. This means that its functions depend on the person-the artist who created the art.
personal function
They may also be pleased to represent the world, and they develop a certain satisfaction from doing so.
personal function
addresses a particular collective interest as
opposed to a personal interest
social function
a very common example of an art with a social function
political art
Art can also depict social conditions
such as __________ (pictures of poverty)
photography
social function examples
protests, rallies
Remembering by
Ai Weiwei
can be found in artworks that are crafted to serve some physical purpose
physical function
Architecture, jewelry-making, and even
interior design are all forms of arts that
have the
physical function
- original form was principally functional
- used for dance and religion
music
was also essential to dance because it assures synchronicity among dancers
music
music that has no connection to dance or religion
serenade
PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ART
art as an imitation
art as a reflection of society
art as a disinterested judgement
art as a communication of emotion
the things in this world are only copies of the original, the eternal, and the true entities that can only be found in the _________
world of forms
ART AS AN IMMITATION
According to ___________ , the
things in this world are only copies of the
original, the eternal, and the true entities
that can only be found in the World of Forms
Plato
ART AS AN IMMITATION
Plato was deeply suspicious of arts and
artists for two reasons:
They appeal to the emotion rather to the
rational faculty of men.
They imitate rather than lead one to reality.
rouses emotions and feelings and
thus, clouds rationality of people
poetry
an imitation of imitation
art
defends art by saying that in the
appreciation of art the viewer receives a certain “cognitive value” from the experience
His famous example compares poetry to the study of
history
aristotle
______ is more philosophical and
higher thing than ______
poetry
history
______ tends to express the universal
______ the particular
poetry
history
Aristotle argues that ________ is only concerned with specific instances while ________ deals with “basic human, and therefore universal, experience.”
history
poetry
in his Critique of Judgement, considered the judgement of beauty, the cornerstone of art, as something than can be universal despite its subjectivity.
recognized that judgement of beauty is
subjective
Immanuel Kant
ART AS A DISINTERESTED JUDGEMENT
According to _______, art plays a huge role in communication with its audience’s emotions that the artist previously experienced.
Leo Tolstoy
ART AS A COMMUNICATION OF EMOTION
Art then serves as a _______; a communication device that articulates feelings and emotions that are otherwise unavailable to the audience.
language
Making an aesthetic judgement require us to be disinterested.
we should try to go beyond our individual tastes and preferences so that we can appreciate art from a universal standpoint.
ART AS A DISINTERESTED JUDGEMENT
