Aesthetics

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Aesthetics

• The study of the nature and value of art that
  guides us toward intelligent opinions about art.

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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and
recognises before it can speak. But there is also
another sense in which seeing comes before words.
It is seeing which establishes our place in the
surrounding world we explain that world with
words, but words can never undo the fact that we
are surrounded by it. The relation between what
we see and what we know is never settled.John
Berger in Ways of Seeing

• Robert Rauchenburg,
• Paragraph 2, 2000
• Pop Art

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Aesthetician

• A person who studies
• or writes about the
• nature and value
• of art.
• Career possibilities
• could include
• - Museum Director
• - Art Journalist
• - Education Director
• at an art museum
• - Journalist/Author
• - Philosophy Professor
• - Curator
• - Gallery Owner
• Red Grooms,
• Jackson in Action, 1997,
• Pop Art

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Five Philosophies of Aesthetics

• Realism
• Formalism
• Expressionism
• Instrumentalism
• Institutionalism

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Examples of Imitationalismin 20th Century Art
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Realism refers to art that focuses on things
being realistically represented.
Andy Warhol, Sixteen Jackies, acrylic on canvas,
1964 Pop Art
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Realism refers to art that focuses on things
being realistically represented.
Duane Hanson, Young Shopper, 1973 Pop Art
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Realism refers to art that focuses on things
being realistically represented.
Richard Estes, Central Savings, oil on canvas,
1975 Hyper-realism
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Examples of Formalism in 20th Century Art
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Formalism places the emphasis on the design
qualities (the elements and principles) in a work
of art.
Louise Nevleson, Sky Cathedral,
1957-1960, Abstract Expressionism
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Formalism places the emphasis on the design
qualities (the elements and principles) in a work
of art.
Elizabeth Murray, Arm-Ear , 1994, Neo-Expressionis
m
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Formalism places the emphasis on the design
qualities (the elements and principles) in a work
of art.
Frank Gehry, Guggenheim- Bilbao,
1993-1997 Deconstructivism
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Examples of Expressionism in 20th Century Art
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Expressionism requires that a work of art must
get a response in terms of awakening feelings,
moods, and emotions in the viewer.
Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937 Cubism
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Expressionism requires that a work of art must
get a response in terms of awakening feelings,
moods, and emotions in the viewer.
Kathe Kollwitz, The Volunteers, 1920 German
Expressionism
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Examples of Instrumentalism in 20th Century Art
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Instrumentalism requires that art move people to
act for the betterment of society art that
serves as an instrument for furthering a point
of view that might be moral, social, religious,
or political.
Keith Haring, Untitled ( Free South Africa ),
1984 Graffiti Art
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Instrumentalism requires that art move people to
act for the betterment of society art that
serves as an instrument for furthering a point
of view that might be moral, social, religious,
or political.
Barbara Krueger, We Dont Need Another Hero,
1987 Neo-Expressionism
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Examples of Institutionalism in 20th Century Art
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Institutionalism focuses on unconventional works
of art that can only be identified as works of
art because they are placed in a museum or
gallery.
Naum June Paik, In Flux House, 1993, Fluxus
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Institutionalism focuses on unconventional works
of art that can only be identified as works of
art because they are placed in a museum or
gallery.
On Kawara, February 19, 1980, 1980, Conceptual
Art
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Institutionalism focuses on unconventional works
of art that can only be identified as works of
art because they are placed in a museum or
gallery.
Eva Hesse, Rope Piece, 1970, Post Minimalism