Lecture 3 Flashcards
Creation and appreciation of beautiful human-made objects
Art
Greek word for aesthetics
Aisthesis
Aisthesis means
Perception or sensory cognition
Who first employed the word aesthetics
Alex Baumgarten
It is the philosophy of beauty and art
Aesthetic
Three divisions of Aesthetics
Beauty (Nature of Beautiful Things);
Art (Essence of Art); Art Criticism (Evaluation of the merit or demerit of works of art)
Two ways in considering beauty
Relative and absolute
Beauty relies on the beholder
Relative
Beauty is in the thing itself
Absolute
Who coined the term aesthetics
Baumgarten
Humans experience the world in two fundamental ways
Logically and aesthetically
Who said that the starting point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion
Clive Bell from his book, Art
Beautiful = Delights; Ugly = ?
Glooms
Refers to how a person experience art using his senses
Sensorial experiences
What are the senses and their sense-data?
Eye - Seeing - Color, Shape, Size
Ears - Hearing - Sound
Nose - Smelling - Odor
Tongue - Tasting - Taste
Skin - Touching - Touch
Imagination - Imagining - Image
Forms of art according to senses
Eye - Visual Art
Ears - Auditory Art
Nose - Olfactory Art
Tongue - Culinary Art
Skin - Tactile Art
Imagination - Imaginative Art
Examples of tactile art
Sculpture, Lovemaking
Examples of imaginative art
Literature and drama
Examples of visual art
painting, sculpture, architecture, dance, drama
Examples of auditory art
Music, drama
Examples of olfactory art
Perfume making
Examples of culinary art
Cooking
Aesthetic values according to the senses (Beautiful)
Color - picturesque
Shape - pretty
Size - cute
Motion - graceful
Sound - lovely
Odor - fragrant
Taste - delicious
Touch - pleasant
Image - fantastic
Aesthetic values according to the senses (Ugly)
Color - blur
Shape - grotesque
Size - piquant
Motion - awkward
Sound - droll
Odor - foul
Taste - pungent
Touch - harsh
Image - ridiculous
Meaning of horror vacui
Fear of empty space
Element of art produced when light, striking an object, is reflected back to the eye
Color
It is the sum total of katangian of anything that gives the highest pleasure to the senses
Ganda
True or false: Ganda and buti can be used interchangeably
True
Ganda that is overwhelming
Dilag (Gorgeousness)
Feminine attribute of being attractive
Alindog (Charm)
Gorgeous display of ganda in appearance, speech, action
Rangya (Loveliness)
Gorgeous display of ganda in cosmetics, jewelry/attire
Dingal
Implies orderliness, neatness, and fineness
Inam
Masculine attributes of handsomeness
Kisig (Proportion) and Gilas (Symmetry)
Lambing means
Affection
The charm of being gentle and doctile
Amo (Gentleness)
Glittering beauty
Kinang (Radiance), Ningning (Luster), Kintab (Radiance), Luningning (Luster)
Sparkling beauty
Kislap