lecture 3 Flashcards
first employed by Baumgarten to mean “the science of sensory perception.”
aesthetics
to denote a realm of concrete knowledge, as distinct from the abstract where content is communicated in sensory forms
aesthetics
theory about the ultimate reality of things
philosophy
nature of beauty: why are beautiful things beautiful?
“of beauty”
essence of art: what makes something a work of art?
“and art”
the creation and appreciation of beautiful human-made object
aesthetic
“is the creation”
by the artists in their creativity
“and appreciation”
by the spectator with artistic taste
“of beautiful”
anything with a value that delights
“human-made objects”
art distinguished from nature
two ways of considering beauty
relative and absolute
beauty is in the eye of the beholder
relative
beauty is in the thing itself
absolute
seeing
color, shape, size, motion
hearing
sound
smelling
odor
tasting
taste
touching
texture, shape, size, motion
imagining
images
painting, sculpture, architecture, dance, drama
visual art
music, drama
auditory art
perfume making
olfactory art
cooking
culinary art
sculpture, lovemaking
tactile art
literature, drama
imaginative art
beautiful: picturesque
ugly: blur
color
beautiful: pretty
ugly: grotesque
shape
beautiful: cute
ugly: piquant
size
beautiful: graceful
ugly: awkward
motion