U.8 AESTHETICS Flashcards
What are Aesthetics?
Science that aims to theorise beauty and art, and their different manifestations in artitsic artifacts along with the creative process and the artistic experience
Modes or categorires of beauty
- Study of artistic creations: Philosophy of art.
- ”” Study of the artistic experience (What is beautiful)
- Study of the artistic judgement (Why do I find this beautiful)
4.Study of works of art - Study of artists
- Study of the relations between art and society (why does everyone like this)
History of Aesthetics
Pythagoras: his ideas on beauty
Beauty is harmony. Theory of harmony. Music. Mathematics. Proportion. Kosmos
History of Aesthetics
Who were the fist phil to explore the idea of beauty?
Plato and Plotinus (beauty that doesn’t come from division, like the sun)
History of Aesthetics
Bamgaurten
Was the first to introduce the concept of beauty in Gnoseology: our senses give us an impression of what is beautiful, therefore of what is good. We learn form this sensitive experience.
History of Aesthetics
καλός ἀλήθεια
ἀρετή
- καλός: beauty
- ἀλήθεια: Truth
- ἀρετή: goodness, excellence
History of Aesthetics
English Empiricism
Object study switches to the subject and its subjectivivty
History of Aesthetics
Who was the main exponent of English Emmpiricism?
Kant
History of Aesthetics
Kant’s ideas
Beauty is no longer about morals, but well-trained taste
History of Aesthetics
Characteristics of well-trained taste accoding to Kant
- Subjective
- Inmediate
- A priory
- Desinterest/purposeless
- Universal
History of Aesthetics
Schiller
His main contributions are about the idea of the sublime.
Idea que combina el miedo que sienten los humanos al infinito, con su capacidad racional de conceptualizarlo. Nuestra naturaleza sensible siente sus límites, pero nuestra naturaleza racional siente su superioridad, su libertad de límites.
The experience of beauty is the experience of freedom
The effect produced by the beautiful object is to set our understanding and imagination in “free play”(but this is all an appearance)
Appearance of free play though beautiful objects. I
dea of sublime: natural limit (fear) vs freedom of the mind (over these limits)
History of Aesthetics
Hegel’s particular forms of art
- Classical: same as the ideal beauty
- Symbolic: falls short of the ideal beauty
- Romantic: goes beyond the ideal beuty
History of Aesthetics
Modern Aesthetics: Vischer
This imputation of one’s personal life to an inanimate object Vischer called “ Einfühlung
We can both feel and think about beautiful objects. We can classify out thought into categories to better understand our idea of beauty.
History will now focus on the categories of beauty
Examples of beauty categories
Beautiful
SublimeUgly
Grotesque
Gracious
Ridiculous
Comic
Obscene
Kitsch
Naive
