Aesthetics

Question 1

Aesthetics

Answer 1

The philosophy or theory of taste, or of the perception of the beautiful in nature and in art

Question 2

Kants Idea of pure beauty

Answer 2

• Freedom from concepts
• Objectivity
• Disinterest in the spectator
• Obligatoriness

Question 3

Taste

Answer 3

The decisions we make about aesthetics

Question 4

Aesthetic Experience

Answer 4

A particular attitude that we may choose to have when we want to appreciate aesthetic qualities
- While we are appreciating something in this way we become less aware of any ethical issues surrounding us

Question 5

Sublime

Answer 5

• Pleasure at being scared

- We get this feeling when we perceive the immensity of nature and can’t comprehend it

Question 6

Aesthetic distance

Answer 6

The emotional distance between you and a piece of art that can be caused by your culture or past experiences

Question 7

Aesthetics and art

Answer 7

• We make meaning from art based on the culture that we are part of, a complete meaning is never available
• Meaning emerge as the culture changed or as the spectator becomes more aware of elements of his or her culture

Question 8

David Hume

Answer 8

• “Beauty is no quality in things themselves”

Question 9

Art is made real in two main ways

Answer 9

• In space (sculpture, painting)

- In time (performance)

Question 10

Classical sensibility

Answer 10

• Admires the idealization of the familiar

- Starts from the familiar human world and it looks for an ideal form within that framework

Question 11

Romantic sensibility

Answer 11

• Admires whatever is unfamiliar, mysterious, wonderous

- Supposes that beauty is in the ye of the beholder

Question 12

Immanuel Kant

Answer 12

“Beauty is within the subject, not the object”

“Look closely, the beautiful may be small”

Question 13

Aristotle

Answer 13

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance”