Lauren Schaaf- Ernst
Rosseau said art is not a description or reproduction of the empirical world but an overflow of emotions and passions. This is an interesting definition of art. Many artists' feel very connected to their work through the emotions portrayed when they create art. It makes sense to me when I read it I just had never thought about the definition of art. And the realization that what makes it special is the emotion rather than the reproduction of the empirical world that I seem to focus on when looking at art.
Rosseau and Goethe began characteristic art which gained a definitive victory over imitative art. What does definitive victory mean? What is characteristic art? How can we know the artist's intuition and vision?
Aristotle: Difference between poetry and history. Drama is a complete whole in itself while historians deal with not 1 action but period to happened to one or more persons. This is another quote that stuck out to me in the reading. It's another explanation that I have never thought of. Drama and dance is a performance in which is only 1 set of actions that make up the entire performance. History is a more broad series of actions that must be observed in order to make up a set of ideas/
"Nature to [Croce] is stupid when compared with art" This quote's meaning confused me. It seems like a very negative quote that puts down nature. It appears that he is saying that art is much more important and pleasing compared to nature. I disagree with this. I think nature is special and beautiful because of the way that it has just happened naturally. Artist's interpretations of what is beautiful and worth conveying can be completely imagined. I love seeing the creativity of humans. I think each human being has such a unique perspective of life and beauty that allows them to create something from nothing.
"the organic beauty of a landscape is not the same as that aesthetic beauty which we feel in the works of the great landscape painters" is an interesting quote on page 194. The author talks about how when we experience the landscape with the artist's eye we enter a realm not of living things but of living form. It was contradictory to the way I've always thought about landscape paintings. I never gave paintings as much credit as I gave to the real thing. In my perspective, first reality was always more enchanting for me rather than an artist's interpretation.
Rosseau and Goethe began characteristic art which gained a definitive victory over imitative art. What does definitive victory mean? What is characteristic art? How can we know the artist's intuition and vision?
Aristotle: Difference between poetry and history. Drama is a complete whole in itself while historians deal with not 1 action but period to happened to one or more persons. This is another quote that stuck out to me in the reading. It's another explanation that I have never thought of. Drama and dance is a performance in which is only 1 set of actions that make up the entire performance. History is a more broad series of actions that must be observed in order to make up a set of ideas/
"Nature to [Croce] is stupid when compared with art" This quote's meaning confused me. It seems like a very negative quote that puts down nature. It appears that he is saying that art is much more important and pleasing compared to nature. I disagree with this. I think nature is special and beautiful because of the way that it has just happened naturally. Artist's interpretations of what is beautiful and worth conveying can be completely imagined. I love seeing the creativity of humans. I think each human being has such a unique perspective of life and beauty that allows them to create something from nothing.
"the organic beauty of a landscape is not the same as that aesthetic beauty which we feel in the works of the great landscape painters" is an interesting quote on page 194. The author talks about how when we experience the landscape with the artist's eye we enter a realm not of living things but of living form. It was contradictory to the way I've always thought about landscape paintings. I never gave paintings as much credit as I gave to the real thing. In my perspective, first reality was always more enchanting for me rather than an artist's interpretation.
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