Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel German Philosopher 1770-1831 Student Edition The Philosophy of Fine Art Presented By: Sarah Friedell Donna Gallagher Edited by: Dr. Kay Picart and Brett Ader
Georg W.F. Hegel Born on August 27, 1770 Born at Stuttgart, Germany Stuttgart Grammar School (7-18); not remarkable Student of Theology PhD; deficient in philosophy
More Georg: Employed as a tutor in Bern and Frankfurt and lived in intellectual isolation First Philosophical Work: The Difference Between Fichte’s and Schelling’s System of Philosophy, 1801 First Major Work: Phenomonology of Spirit, 1807
Organic Philosophy Idea/Spirit is ______________ Organic unity: __________________ ______________________________ Abstractions: ___________________ ______________________________ Concretions: ___________________ ____________________________________________________________
Like Philosophy and Religion … Art is another mode in which divine truth is expressed, BUT Art takes a sensuous form close to our sensitive and emotional life Does Art exist as its own item or is Art the effect the object creates in a person?
Content and Function of Art The Content of Art is _____________ ____________________________________________________________ The Function of Art is ____________ ____________________________________________________________
What are the requirements of content? Content shall __________________ _____________________________. Content of art should ____________ ___________________________________________________________. Content must ___________________ ___________________________________________________________.
What is the Ideal? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Three types of Art: This unity evolves into the universal stages of the idea of beauty itself (types of art): _________
What is defines the symbolic, classical, and romantic forms of are, and what are some examples of each?
What is Beauty? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Cloud Study at Hampstead - Constable
What are the fundamental principles of art and why? ___________
In Conclusion: Hegel believes that art is an evolving process which will require many centuries to reach self-cognition of the ideal/beauty. Matador and Nude Woman - Picasso