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What is beauty? It’s one of the oldest questions in Western philosophy. Once, great thinkers considered it to be a value as solid and unchanging as a hunk of marble, prized alongside goodness,...
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Aug 15, 2023 · Defining beauty, especially in art, is not really possible, but that does not mean some art historians have not tried. Some have declared that beauty is ‘unity in diversity of forms’ while others proclaim beauty causes one to feel love or passion.
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Jun 22, 2015 · In the lush, Caravaggio-like male nudes by the painter Thomas Wharton, beauty is in the details of a youthful human form: the curve of a spine, a protrusion of abdominal muscles, the smoothness of flesh.
Feb 1, 2018 · Art educators tend to associate experiences of beauty with passive appreciation rather than active engagement, while researchers of children's understanding of art characterise references to...
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Without resorting to a dictionary, we can define beauty as a quality that attracts us. A visual feast. Something that brings joy or piques interest. A visual and emotional appreciation. But we can be as drawn to ugliness as we are to beauty. Think of a crooked tree next to a perfectly symmetrical one. It’s the warped and twisted branches that leave...
The subject of beauty has always been a thorny one for many artists and critics to wrestle with. It’s in part due to the difficulty of defining beauty. But it also reflects evolving attitudes over time to the place of the role beauty should occupy in our public and private lives and how – and whether – art should embody these rarefied qualities. We...
To consider where beauty stands in today’s art, let’s look to historical assessments of beauty in art. For instance, the man hailed by many as the “father of art history,” Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-68), composed his History of Ancient Artlong after the art of classical antiquity that he sought to study had been largely destroyed. That absenc...
Even putting aside JJ Winckelmann’s call for a sustained search for beauty even in those artworks that may not seem to yield it, there is plenty of reason for optimism about the role of beauty – or the lack of it – in the art of today. Beauty has, for one thing, re-entered the critical conversation in recent decades. The Dutch artist Marlene Dumas ...
As wordsmiths, art critics can often describe beauty better than us mere artists. Drawing these battle lines are such critics as JJ Charlesworth and Jonathan Jones. The former has reasoned that “beauty is one of those ideas that over the past 100 years or so has been slowly downgraded when it comes to considering the value of art… if anything, we [...
Do we still think of people with disabilities or deformities as unable to be beautiful? If I paint someone with a skin disease is it an ugly portrait? Is it degenerate art? Or shocking art? Or is it a dignified portrait of a beautiful soul, who appears a little different, physically speaking, to many others. Does your nude self-portrait conform to ...
So does beauty in art really matter? To use the firmest of clichés: beauty is fleeting. We would countenance today a cultural, moral, political and social attitude very different from those held by people in the past. That would take precedence across the globe. Once, capturing beauty was a key part of an artist’s role, but what about today? The yo...
Apr 19, 2023 · From a subjective stance, beauty is what you make of it, what your preference is, what calls to your heart, soul and mind. Nach Der Schule by Ferdinand Georg Waldmuller – depicts a variety of emotions from playfulness to displeasure, aggression to tenderness and offers the viewers plenty of opportunity to reflect upon.
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Introduction. At least two concepts are immediately involved in any attempt at answering the question “What Makes an Artwork Beautiful?”. Namely, the notion of beauty—a keyword in Western aesthetics—and the notion of art—one of the most debated topics in contemporary philosophical aesthetics.
