Beauty vs Artistic Beauty Crystal Lichin Huang What
Beauty vs. Artistic Beauty Crystal Li-chin Huang
What is Beauty? Object vs. Subjective Accounts The enterprise of aesthetic judgment is highly complicated. This presentation attempts to differentiate the major differences between the concept of “beauty” and “artistic beauty”. Several perspectives from philosophers, aestheticians, and social thinkers were introduced via different work of arts representing the evolvement of aesthetic and judgments. The major two categories: The objective accounts and subjective accounts can be seen that the beautiful qualities are objectively presented in the things they appear to the qualifications; and the Subjective account is perceived whether the beautiful qualities exist in the mind of the individual.
Psychological/ Cognitive dimension Ideological/Moral dimension Pragmatism/Functionalism Mimetic or imitationalism Theories of Philosophy of Art Formalism Ephemeralism work of art Objective Account of Beauty Socio-Cultural dimension Aesthetics of Visual Arts What is Intentional Artistic Beauty? Organicism Expressionism Emotionalism Attender/ Viewer Subjective Account of Beauty Econo-Political dimension
• • Different Lenses of Aesthetics Imitationalism/ Representationalism Expressionism Emotionalism Formalism Organicism Pragmatism/Functionalism Ephemeralism
Example: Visual Evolution- From Religion to Capitalism
Poli-economic Perspective
Socio-cultural Perspective
Ideological/Moral Perspective
Psychological/Cognitive Perspective Examples: Organic and bureaucratic society
Psychological/Cognitive Perspective E. g. #2 Gender in Context
Psychological/Cognitive Perspective. What do you see?
A picture is worth thousand words!
Conclusion In this poster presentation, the subjective accounts of beauty refer to the particular artistic endeavors, progressing from retinal toward cerebral aesthetic experience and judgments, and tend to be highly contextualized.
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