arts, lesson 6

• Immanuel Kant - Laid the philosophical foundation for artistic modernism
• aesthetic - branch of philosophy that deals with nature, beauty, and value of art and experiences
• viewers of art - should put themselves in a state of sensory awareness
• aesthetic judgement - should be neither personal nor relative
• psychic distance - viewer should rise above time, place, and personal biases to reach a judgement
• Clive Bell and Roger Fry - the artist's intent or any social influence that went into that making of an artwork should be disregarded
• Harold Rosenberg - a painting is not a picture or a thing; it's the thing itself
• Andy Warhol - claimed everything is art
• Arthur Danto - art doesn't need to be beautiful
• Arnold Hauser - visual image is a window of specific time and space
• contemporary trends in art making became pluralistic
• the artist is free to deconstruct or recontextualize the art
• post-modernism - artists believe that it is alright to copy masterpieces and exhibit it as their own 'appropriating' or 'borrowing'
• art analysis - starts with the description of an artwork
• analysis - requires an understanding of the content
• art interpretation - is employed by the viewer after describing and analyzing an artwork
• Harry Mark Gonzales - 'REFLECTION'
• God embracing mankind - subject matter of 'REFLECTION'