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The arts
Illuminating the human condition
Aims
• Art and knowledge
• Comparisons between the arts and science
What is art?
• Visual arts
• Performance arts
• Literature
• Aesthetic urge is one of the things that distinguishes us from other animals
What is art?
• Manmade
• 3 possible criteria: intentions of the artist, the quality of the work, the response of the spectators
Intentions of the artist
• Intended to evoke an aesthetic response - to please or provoke
• Sunset
Intentions of the artist
• Tracey Emin - My bed
• Exhibited at Turner Prize Exhibition London
• Sold to C. Saatchi for 150,000 P.
Quality of the work
• Skill, talent, training • Beauty with respect
to the form and content– Content: what it
depicts– Form: unity, order,
rhythm, balance, proportion, harmony, symmetry
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZD9nt_wsY0
Quality of the work
• Lack of originality - Kitsch, clichéd art: USA’s most popular painting
• Forgeries: Van Meegeren, the Disciples at Emmaus
• Picasso’s Bull’s head
Response of spectators
• The general public: Stravinsky’s Rite of springs, Picasso’s
• Expert opinions
Aesthetics and likes/dislikes
• Aesthetic judgments should be disinterested
• Its is a great work of art but I don’t like it (Pele)
• Universal standards in art?
• Cultural differences
Art and knowledge
• Art as an imitation: ‘art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes it visible’. (P. Klee)
• Art affects the way we perceive reality (photo)
Art and knowledge
• Art as communication: breadth and depth of human experience
• song
Art and knowledge
• Art as education: moral provocation (role models)