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Aesthetic Movement• the self-determined value
of art
• to create and celebrate art solely for the pleasure
• The mixture of visual qualities of one piece
*confusion is its attraction
• everyone has the equal right to enjoy the pleasure of art and has the opportunity to decide his personal taste
Aesthetic Movement :Confusion is its Attraction
To borrow foreign images and styles regardless of their historical or geographical background
William Morris
Strawberry Thief Chintz
* Confusion creates a pleasurable visual stimulus
* The Japanese influence became the strongest and best known, a cult for Japan at that time emerged accordingly.
William Morris* March 24, 1834 – October 3, 1896
If I were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for; I should answer; A beautiful House.
*the importance of beauty in everyday life.
- Art for Art’s Sake
Oscar Wilde
The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
[All art is useless.]
一種評斷美醜的方法:
專制地為美學擬定一階級制度, follow the Kantian theory which regards “beauty” as a property of things, not an abstract characteristic.
Aesthetics Now :the sublime is to combine beauty with ugliness, to find pleasure in the unpresentable. (South Park)
Aesthetics Now :the sublime is to combine beauty with ugliness, to find pleasure in the unpresentable. (South Park)