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| - | ====== Aesthetic Judgement ====== | + | **[[start|<< Up]]** |
| + | ====== Aesthetic Judgement ====== | ||
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| ===== Different Art Forms ===== | ===== Different Art Forms ===== | ||
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| + | ^ art form ^ performance ^ non-performance ^ | ||
| + | | literature | poetry reading, theatre | fiction, poetry, drama | | ||
| + | | music | classical, pop, folk | - | | ||
| + | | dance | ballet, modern/contemporary, traditional | - | | ||
| + | | visual | - | painting/drawing, sculpture, fashion design | | ||
| + | | cinema | - | entertainment, art house, documentary | | ||
| + | | architecture | - | modern, traditional, everyday | | ||
| ===== Content and Form: Representational and Abstract Art ===== | ===== Content and Form: Representational and Abstract Art ===== | ||
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| + | in language, we can distinguish between the __content__ of a sentence and its __form__ -- e.g. | ||
| + | * "John loves Mary", | ||
| + | * "Mary is loved by John": same content, different form, | ||
| + | * "John hates Mary": same form, different content; | ||
| + | this distinction can also be applied in the case of works of art, although it may not always be obvious what the content or the form are. | ||
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| + | art that has a clear content is called __representational__, other art, which appears not to be //about// anything, is called __abstract__. | ||
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| + | ^ art form ^ content ^ form ^ | ||
| + | | literature | story, plot, setting | division into acts or chapters, rhyme and metre, vocabulary | | ||
| + | | music | lyrics, but also (the form of) emotions (Susanne K. Langer) | structure, e.g. verses, instrumentation, dynamics and speed | | ||
| + | | dance | | | | ||
| + | | visual | | | | ||
| + | | cinema | | | | ||
| + | | architecture | | | | ||
| ===== Genres and Styles ===== | ===== Genres and Styles ===== | ||
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| genre, style + critics (= they) | genre, style + critics (= they) | ||
| </code> | </code> | ||
| - | note: a critic is a specialist who helps us understand a (purported) work of art better, and thereby enables us to evaluate it -- so I read critics even after I have attended a concert or finished a novel; | + | note: a critic is a specialist who helps us understand a (purported) work of art better, and thereby enables us to evaluate it -- so I read critics even after I have attended a concert or finished a novel;\\ a good piece of criticism, including a good literature lesson in school, should enable me to understand, appreciate and hopefully enjoy a work more. |
| so when judging a (purported) work of art we can use | so when judging a (purported) work of art we can use | ||
| - | * 'he/she': | + | * __he/she:__ the artist's intention, ("If I say I have made a work of art, you must accept it as a work of art.") his/her background, period, biography; |
| - | * 'me': | + | * __me:__ the spectator's or audience's feelings and emotions ("I know what I like!" or: "Everyone likes it, so it is a great song.") |
| - | * 'it': | + | * __it:__ properties of the work itself, formal aspects like balance, use of colour, intensity, ORIGINALITY; |
| - | * 'they': | + | * __they:__ the general consensus, especially of informed specialists who have studied the art form, ("It must be a great work because I saw it in the museum.") |
| + | for each of these ways, there have been people arguing that it is the only correct one, but in practice we use all of these. | ||
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