1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. Organic Philosophy Idea/Spirit is ______________
Organic unity: __________________ ______________________________
Abstractions: ___________________ ______________________________
Concretions: ___________________ ____________________________________________________________

5. 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?

6. Content and Function of Art
The Content of Art is _____________ ____________________________________________________________
The Function of Art is ____________ ____________________________________________________________

7. What are the requirements of content?
Content shall __________________ _____________________________.
Content of art should ____________ ___________________________________________________________.
Content must ___________________ ___________________________________________________________.

8. What is the Ideal?
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

9. Three types of Art:
This unity evolves into the universal stages of the idea of beauty itself (types of art):
_________

10. What is defines the symbolic, classical, and romantic forms of are, and what are some examples of each?

11. What is Beauty?
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Cloud Study at Hampstead - Constable

12. What are the fundamental principles of art and why?
___________

13. 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