Formalism, Expressionism and Hedonism Flashcards
Art is the combination
of?
perceptual elements
Art is the combination
of perceptual elements
FORMALISM
Art is _________________
because does not contain
any representation.
NON-FIGURATIVE
has no representation
NON-FIGURATIVE ART
“To appreciate art, we
bring with us nothing
from life.” What is
essential in art is only
the “significant form”.
CLIVE BELL
“Art for art’s sake.”
THEOPHILE GAUTIER
“Artists need to look at
nature and things only as
forms made up of spheres,
cylinders, cones.”
PAUL CEZANNE
Concerning the Spiritual
in the Arts
WASSILY KANDINSKY
Sign of Materialism in
the Society
REPRESENTATIONAL ART
Would bring about
Spiritual Life
PURELY FORMAL ART
Paintings which retain some naturalistic representation.
IMPRESSIONS
Paintings which convey deep
emotions inspired by events
of a spiritual type.
IMPROVISATIONS
Purely formal paintings done
carefully, over a period of time,
after preliminary studies. These
are his most complicated works.
COMPOSITIONS
He painted this
after attending
a concert by
Schonberg
Impression III
(Concert)
He painted this
because of the
constant talk
about the
incoming war
Improvisation
No. 30 (Canons)
He painted
this after a lot
of preliminary
sketches.
Composition
No. 3
The formal
geometrical
design in
Islamic Art
ARABESQUE
“Art is the creation
of symbolic forms
expressive of
human feelings.
SUSANNE LANGER
“Art is the
objectification
of emotion.”
LEO TOLSTOY
Art is the expression of
the artist’s overflowing
emotion (catharsis).
ARISTOTLE
Like language, art is the
expression of idea by the
artist (Intuitionism).
BENEDETTO CROCE
He experienced miseries
and pain in life, which he
expressed through his art.
EDVARD MUNCH
POWERFUL WOMAN
Leonardo, The Mona Lisa
MEEK WOMAN
Raphael, Madonna
Dancing the Tango
Mask of Zorro (erotic dance)
Antonio Banderas and
Catherine Zeta-Jones
comes from a Latin word which means “pressing outward”
Expression
something is beautiful when it is…
pleasurable
aesthetic hedonism was formulated by…
Aristipus and Epicurus
He wrote a treatise
in Aesthetics entitled, Observations on the Feelings of the Beautiful and the
Sublime.
Immanuel Kant
does not focus on the properties of the object itself but rather on the pleasure one experiences as he responds to it
subjective taste
non-aesthetic and does not consider the beauty of the work or the mastery of the
artist, but rather, the artwork is appreciated for what it is.
universal taste
