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3/19
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Art Exposure Aesthetic Judgments Universal Standards How do/should you judge art?
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Is this song art? Consider any discussions or notes from last week!
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Main Questions: What distinguishes good art from bad? How much of it is objective? How much is influenced by culture we grow up in? How much is influenced by personal taste?
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It is a paradox On one hand: there are STANDARDS of aesthetic judgment and some judgments are better than others On the other hand: beauty is in the eye of the beholder and there is no accounting for taste
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Standards of Judgment Justifies a teacher grading a piece of creative writing, or a composition, or a painting Suggests that there are criteria for distinguishing good art from bad
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Taste You cannot argue about tastes in the arts (similar to tastes in food, right?) You like it or you don’t. But can we educate are tastes?!
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“Michael Jordan was one of the best basketball players of all time.” Is this a fact or an opinion? How is it similar and how is it difference from the kinds of judgments we see in art?
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“It is a great work of art, but I don’t like it.” How, if at all, can someone say this with consistency?
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Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) Big difference between judgments of taste and aesthetic judgments AJ = make a universal claim and have a sense of “ought” built into them
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1. I like this painting 2. This painting is beautiful. Statement 1 Differences can coexist. Statement 2 Contradicting each other “beautiful” implies other ppl should see it too
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In our aesthetic judgments we are “suitors for agreement”
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What distinguishes aesthetic judgments from personal taste? They are disinterested.
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If you are going to judge a work of art based on its merits, you should not bring your biography with you.
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Kant – we should look at art disinterestedly. DOES NOT mean we should be uninterested, but we should go beyond our individual tastes and preferences We need to appreciate it from a more universal stand point. You don’t have to like something to appreciate it.
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“It is a great work of art, but I don’t like it.” What are some examples of this in your own life?
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3/23
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Art Exposure Are there universal standards in art? How do you judge art?
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Experience Through Inquiry Artwork: What do I see? Context: What else can I learn? Interpretation: What does it mean? Connections Across Art: How does it compare to other artworks? Personal: What does it mean to me? Connections across subjects: How does it relate to other subject? Connections to Quotes….
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Experience Through Inquiry The Singing Butler – Jack Vettriano
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Write down 5-10 adjectives that come to your mind when you look at the painting
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5-10 adjectives again
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1 – Compare your lists with your partners. Similarities? Differences? 2 -What, if anything, does this suggest to you about the nature of aesthetic judgment? Painting 1: The Lake, Pentworth: Sunset, a Stag Drinking – Turner Painting 2: The Mud Bath - Bomberg
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Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid Similar universality in musical tastes Similar tastes in art – landscape paintings? Biology? American Dominance?
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Do you think the world is becoming culturally more homogeneous? To what extent do you think that your own cultural tradition is under threat?
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To what extent do you think there are universal standards of what makes a face a face beautiful? To what extent do you think it varies from culture to culture?
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Are people seeing similarities because they WANT to see similarities? There may be universal ELEMENTS to different parts of art, but we should be careful not to blind ourselves to the differences.
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How much can we learn about the way a culture sees the world by studying the art that it produces?
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Art Exposure using Experience through Inquiry Art and knowledge: Art as Imitation What is the purpose of art? What knowledge can you gain from art?
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South African Art “Fishing Boats” – Irma Stern
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Art as imitation Art as communication Art as education
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Imitation or Copy Theory The purpose of art is to copy reality. (Mimetic Theory – Mimesis)
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Michelangelo, Ausguste Rodin… We expect paintings/novels to be true to life… Throughout history, the arts have been driven by the desire to achieve a perfect likeness
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Photos questioned everything! (but should they…. “essential you”) Why try to copy the world by paint when a perfect image can be created w/ a click of a button? Complete revolution in arts that caused a questioning of traditional arts…. Especially music
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Relation to Perception – (creative interpretation?) Sophisticated View – great art helps us to see the world with new eyes Maybe drawing attention to unnoticed aspects?
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Art can subtly influence the way in which we experience the world
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Do you think that people turn to the arts to be more challenged or to be comforted? Should the arts comfort or should they challenge?
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“The camera never lies.” Do you agree or disagree with this quote?
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“Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.” – Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) What do you think he meant by this?
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When Picasso was told that his portrait of Gerturude Stein didn’t look like her, he said, “Never mind! It will!” What do you think he meant by this?
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