Artistic Questions:
What does art do
How do we know if a work of art us great?
Are value jugdgments important to thinking critically?
Making Aesthetic Judgments
A topomap, shows geographical map details.
Ansel Adams, "The Tetons and the Snake River (1942)"
Art, a different way of seeing and knowing things.
What is aesthetics?
Aesthetics - branch of philosophy dealing with beauty or taste.
Art Auction
Tim Keller, his opinions about art.
"...most people know good art when they see it."
Bathos and pathos.
Bathos, just explains it. Exciting waterfall.
Pathos, makes you feel it. Surging water, from the heights of heavens.
Test Criterion for Great Art:
1. Popular Appeal.
Thomas Kinkade, Lakeside Manor (2006)
More of his art in peoples house than Michaelangelo.
2. Worth by Association
Celebrity worth, many people are fans of it.
Pablo Picasso, Boy with Pipe (1905)
Head of a Woman (1965)
3. Market Value
The more money is cost, then it must be good.
Damien Hirst, "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living" (1992, 2006)
Lawrence Alma-Tadema, "The Finding of Moses" (1904)
Was known so when in the early 20th century, later on was forgotten, and remembered again in 21st century.
4. Critical Recognition
If the experts say its a great art work, then we need to listen to them.
Tracey Emin
My Bed (1998)
So... how do we judge?
Creating the Canon.
All the arts, music, theater.
LOL.........
Takes a 100 years to see whether it is good.
Paul Schrader's
"Refurbished Criteria for a Film Canon"
1. Beauty
2. Strangeness
3. Unity of Form and Subject Matter
4. Tradition
5. Repeatability
6. Viewer Engagement
7. Morality
Repeatability, to be able to come back to an art and find new meaning to it.
Critical Thinking About Aesthetics
1. Give difficult art a fair shake before dismissing it.
2. Like what you like, divorced from both popular and critical opinion.
3. "Enjoyable" and "Great" aren't necessarily synonyms.
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