art is quite useless” (Wilde 4). In this one sentence‚ Wilde encapsulates the complete principles of the Aesthetic Movement popular in Victorian England. That is to say‚ real art takes no part in molding the social or moral identities of society‚ nor should it. Art should be beautiful and pleasure its observer‚ but to imply further-reaching influence would be a mistake. The explosion of aesthetic philosophy in fin-de-siècle English society‚ as exemplified by Oscar Wilde‚ was not confined to merely
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Differences aesthetics of African cultures The beauty of African art can convey emotional messages to the observer. It is important however to understand the culture that influenced the art. It is hard to distinguish between different types of African art as many of the basic themes of African art are religion. Religion most often manifests itself into African art through masks‚ sculpture‚ ancestor or cult figures‚ fetishes‚ and reliquary figures. There are many different religions throughout
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Wander through the Louvre‚ leaf through the "Great Books"--you won’t find many works by women. Feminists have long sought to explain this absence‚ and to question the standards that guide "canon formation"--the aesthetic judgments deem some works excellent‚ and others minor or altogether unworthy of notice. In her 1928 A Room of One’s Own‚ Virginia Woolf explored the social constraints that limited women’s literary and artistic production. Talent‚ even genius‚ counted for little‚ Woolf mused‚ without
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is the norm otherwise there is order and disorder‚ profound and superficial‚ harmonies and discords. On mechanism and chaos‚ neither will evolve with beauty. He believed that all the aesthetic terms share values of enjoyment and that all are good experiences and what gives intrinsic value is a problem for the aesthetics not the morality. Beauty is in the center and outside the circle there is no value‚ inside the circle value is abundant. If every human experience were ideal then it would become monotonous
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Keats tells us that truth is beauty and beauty is truth. Wilde tells us that all art is useless. Huxley shows us that‚ “Where beauty is worshipped for beauty’s sake as a goddess‚ independent of and superior to morality and philosophy‚ the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.” In Beauty‚ by Huxley we get juxtapositions of these seemingly incongruent ideas. The poem is dense with mythology and imagery
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hundred and fourty-three passages written by a Buddhist monk Yoshida Kenko‚ who writes about Buddhist truths‚ death‚ impermanence‚ nature of beauty as well as some anecdotes. Although his works contain different subjects and vary in length‚ I find his aesthetic principles of admiration of uncertainty and simplicity in terms of nature‚ architecture‚ civilized behavior and life attitudes the main theme throughout the book. Impermanence and uncertainty is a widely discussed theme in literature works around
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What is an artist but a person who perceives a truth and decides to translate that truth into something more. Harper Lee looked out at the racial prejudice of society and turned it into an award winning novel on youth and ignorance within a southern society. Yet‚ she enriched it with richly defined characters and sense of place that evokes powerful‚ often overwhelming emotional responses. Andrei Tarkovsky‚ arguably the most influential foreign director‚ unleashed upon the world a piece that celebrates
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different things when they viewed his Giant Hamburger. The art students viewed the large hamburger and they had a direct perception to the art and the art students were compelled to make their own artistic expression. The students had an immediate aesthetic view of the hamburger and soon after they had a practical view for the art even if they meant it to be satirical. The artist himself even commented on the student protest: “This doesn’t hurt my feelings at all. My work is going to get old soon enough
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My Philosophy of Education TEACHER ROLES: I believe that the teacher of elementary students has many roles. I will sometimes be a facilitator-guide‚ sometimes a supportive‚ nurturing mother-like figure‚ and sometimes a sage who imparts knowledge. I will encourage my students to become more self-aware and self-managing. I believe that elementary school teachers must focus significant classroom time on the acquisition of social and community skills such as mutual respect‚ cooperation‚ friendship-building
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Temple. Epistemology. Retrieved November 9‚ 2012 from http://www.philosophy-index.com/philosophy/epistemology.php Metaphysical. Retrieved November 10‚ 2012 from http://www.pbs.org/faithandreason/gengloss/metaph-body.html Cline‚ A. What is Aesthetics? Aesthetics is the Philosophy of Art‚ Beauty‚ Perception. Retrieved November 25‚ 2012 from http://atheism.about.com/od/philosophybranches/p/Aesthetics.htm
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