CHAPTER 2 FUNCTIONS AND PHILOSOPHY OF ART Flashcards
What is thd most common reason why people engage in art?
Utilitarian Intention
What are the 3 functions of art?
- Personal (utilitarian,public display,expression)
- Social (used for public display and celebration usd to affect the collective behavior)
- physical (utilitarian)
Who coined the word utilitarian?
Jeremy Bentham who labored on the notion of happiness . Its simplest formulation is the popular phrase “the greatest number happiness for the greatest number”
A healthy mind in a healthy body
Mens sana in corporesano
Refined the thought of Jeremy by abandoning the strict “calculus of pleasures and pains as too narrow”. Most people arr motivated to do an artwork for personal reason
J.S. Mill
First person to have used and defined the Philosophy (philo and sophia)
Pythagoras
He believed that an artist’s work is nothing but a copy (mimesis) of the original object that is to be found in the world of ideas or forms
Plato
He was a true-blue idealist who considered the physical world as just the shadow of the ideal world. For him, whatever is copied cannot match the prototype.
Plato
He considered the arts as inferior to science and philosophy
Plato
He considered art as a representation of reality. By presentation here is meant to artist’s unique way of capturing an image of reality in his own terms.
Aristotle
What is catharsis according to Aristotle
A purgation of one’s emotion
He believed that the arts does not simply copy but recreates reality in a manner that alleviates the audience.
Aristotle
He is at the same time suggesting that all art in general is an imitation of human life. Thus, whether he is talkind about comedy or tragedy, the purpose is the same: to mimic how humans live their usual lives
Aristotle
He is at the same time suggesting that all art in general is an imitation of human life. Thus, whether he is talkind about comedy or tragedy, the purpose is the same: to mimic how humans live their usual lives
Aristotle
What is the title of the famous painting by Raphael where it demonstrates how the thoughts of Aristotle and Plato clash.
Plato = Pointing upwards. reality is up there in the world of ideas
Aristotle = Pointing downward, reality is down here in the world.
The School of Athens
