The Arts- Scope

1
The Arts- Scope

• What is the area of knowledge about?
• What practical problems can be solved through
  applying this knowledge?
• What makes this area of knowledge important?
• What are the current open questions in this
  area?
• Are there ethical considerations that limit the
  scope of inquiry?

2
What is Art?
3
(No Transcript)
4
The Representation of Reality
5
(No Transcript)
6
(No Transcript)
7
(No Transcript)
8
(No Transcript)
9
(No Transcript)
10
The spectator
The artist
The work of art
11
Art and Beauty

• Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all
• Ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know
• - John Keats

12
(No Transcript)
13
(No Transcript)
14
The Divine Proportion
15
Significant Form

• I do not disbelieve in absolute beauty any more
  than I disbelieve in absolute truth. On the
  contrary, I gladly suppose that the proposition-
  this object must either be beautiful or not
  beautiful- is absolutely true. Only, can we
  recognise it? Certainly, at moments we believe we
  can...Every now and then the beauty, the bald
  miracle, the significant form...of a picture, a
  poem or a piece of music, springs from an
  unexpected quarter and lays us flat...When we
  have picked ourselves up we begin to suppose that
  such a state of mind must have been caused by
  something of which the...value was absolute.
  This, we say, is absolute beauty. Perhaps it
  is.
• - Clive Bell- Art

16
(No Transcript)
17
(No Transcript)
18
Art v Kitsch
19
The Price of Art
20
Original v Fake
21
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical
Reproduction

• What the modern means of reproduction have done
  is to destroy the authority of art...For the
  first time ever, images of art have become
  ephemeral, ubiquitous, insubstantial, available,
  valueless, free.
• - John Berger- Ways of Seeing

22
Advertising
23
(No Transcript)
24
The Purposes of Art
25
(No Transcript)
26
(No Transcript)
27
(No Transcript)
28
(No Transcript)
29
(No Transcript)
30

• All art is completely useless- Oscar Wilde

31
Art as education

• Art can amplify mans short time on this earth by
  enabling him to receive from another the whole
  range of someone elses lifelong experiences with
  all their problems, colours and flavours. Art
  recreates in flesh experiences that have been
  lived by other men, and enables people to absorb
  them as if they were their own.
• - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

32
Art and Morality
33
Judgement in the Arts

• 1 I like this painting
• 2 This painting is beautiful

34
Art and Truth

• Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is
  the proper aim of art
• - Oscar Wilde

35
Art and Truth

• Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth- at
  least the truth that is given us to understand
• - Pablo Picasso

36
Progress in Art

• To talk about progress in art makes no sense,
  there is change but not progress. Art is not
  constrained by reality. It cannot be shown to be
  wrong
• Lewis Wolpert

37
Progress in Art

• All Art aspires to the condition of music
• -Walter Pater

38
Art and Science
39
WOKs

• Memory
• Sense Perception
• Language
• Reason
• Emotion
• Intuition
• Imagination
• Faith

40
Knowledge Questions
41
Linking Questions