All Things Ordinary ([info]luckynostalgia) wrote,
@ 2003-10-30 13:09:00
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waxing philo
Okay, so aesthetic beauty that we find in art is either objective or subjective, objective being that the beauty is a true or false quality inherant in the work itself and subjective being that it can depend on the person.

If aeshetic beauty is Objective it is inherant in the work. The work (for this case a painting) is physically comprised of differant paints and a blank canvas. Nobody would consider the blank canvas to have aesthetic beauty in itself and the same goes for individual paints. So the beauty is then inherant at what the paints and canvas make, WHICH, is an idea.

SO aesthetic beauty is then inherant in the idea that it comprises. Ideas are mind dependant.

ERGO: Aesthetic beauty must be subjective & beauty cannot be known a priori.

I still have to submit this to my professor, but i know that some who read this are philosophy bound such as myself so Im asking for critique first in case i have th epotential of looking like an ass.

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[info]kensal
2003-10-30 08:15 pm UTC (link)
ick, there's a sticky topic.
the painting is comprised of paints and a canvas, boring on their own, but together create and subsequentally convey the artists feelings and ideas as a work of art. The work of art then is shown to individuals who usually do not know the artist, and are supposed to draw their own conclusions from the painting.

if the painter is good enough, he can create an obvious conclusion (the horrors of war or the beauty of spring) But the reaction is still completly up to the viewer.

There is some sort of asthetic reaction in all art, either repulsion or attraction I guess. Finding a piece of art beautiful would be objective reasoning by the individual, similarly, finding it horrible would also be objective reasoning.

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