im studying philosophy and i have to read about 20 A4 pages on how to define the word "art". it just seems pretty pointless. art is a huge part of my life (in its various forms), but how are we going to progress by defining what it is?
all input welcome!
thanks a lot
2007-10-08 23:32:45 · 11 answers · asked by john9999999 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Art is continually evolving and thus must be re-defined in ever larger terms. These few selections from the current Epochal Revelation of Truth should help us. Freely use and share these, as all are fully in the Public Domain.
Page-43 The discernment of supreme beauty is the discovery and integration of reality: The discernment of the divine goodness in the eternal truth, that is ultimate beauty. Even the charm of human art consists in the harmony of its unity.
Page-43 All truth--material, philosophic, or spiritual--is both beautiful and good. All real beauty--material art or spiritual symmetry--is both true and good. All genuine goodness--whether personal morality, social equity, or divine ministry-- is equally true and beautiful. Health, sanity, and happiness are integrations of truth, beauty, and goodness as they are blended in human experience. Such levels of efficient living come about through the unification of energy systems, idea systems, and spirit systems.
Page-67 The domains of philosophy and art intervene between the nonreligious and the religious activities of the human self. Through art and philosophy the material-minded man is inveigled into the contemplation of the spiritual realities and universe values of eternal meanings.
Page-557 21. The high mission of any art is, by its illusions, to foreshadow a higher universe reality, to crystallize the emotions of time into the thought of eternity.
Page-646 Philosophy you somewhat grasp, and divinity you comprehend in worship, social service, and personal spiritual experience, but the pursuit of beauty -- cosmology -- you all too often limit to the study of man's crude artistic endeavors. Beauty, art, is largely a matter of the unification of contrasts. Variety is essential to the concept of beauty. The supreme beauty, the height of finite art, is the drama of the unification of the vastness of the cosmic extremes of Creator and creature. Man finding God and God finding man -- the creature becoming perfect as is the Creator -- that is the supernal achievement of the supremely beautiful, the attainment of the apex of cosmic art.
Page-1115 The search for beauty is a part of religion only in so far as it is ethical and to the extent that it enriches the concept of the moral. Art is only religious when it becomes diffused with purpose which has been derived from high spiritual motivation.
Page-2080 In a high civilization, art humanizes science, while in turn it is spiritualized by true religion--insight into spiritual and eternal values. Art represents the human and time-space evaluation of reality. Religion is the divine embrace of cosmic values and connotes eternal progression in spiritual ascension and expansion. The art of time is dangerous only when it becomes blind to the spirit standards of the divine patterns which eternity reflects as the reality shadows of time. True art is the effective manipulation of the material things of life; religion is the ennobling transformation of the material facts of life, and it never ceases in its spiritual evaluation of art.
Page-2080 Any scientific interpretation of the material universe is valueless unless it provides due recognition for the scientist. No appreciation of art is genuine unless it accords recognition to the artist. No evaluation of morals is worth while unless it includes the moralist. No recognition of philosophy is edifying if it ignores the philosopher, and religion cannot exist without the real experience of the religionist who, in and through this very experience, is seeking to find God and to know him. Likewise is the universe of universes without significance apart from the I AM, the infinite God who made it and unceasingly manages it.
Page-2096 Art results from man's attempt to escape from the lack of beauty in his material environment; it is a gesture toward the morontia [soul] level. Science is man's effort to solve the apparent riddles of the material universe. Philosophy is man's attempt at the unification of human experience. Religion is man's supreme gesture, his magnificent reach for final reality, his determination to find God and to be like him.
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2007-10-09 01:18:43 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A very interesting question. Art. This deliverance of knowledge from servitude to the will, this forgetting of the individual self and its material interest, this elevation of the mind to the will-less contemplation of truth, is the function of art.
In painting animals the most characteristicis accounted the most beautiful, because it best reveals the species. A work of art is successful then in proportion as it suggests the Platonic Idea, or universal of the group to which the represented object belongs. The portrait of a man must aim, therefore, not at photographic fidelity but at exposing as far as possible, through one figure, some essential or universal quality of man.
Art is greater than science because the latter proceeds by laborious accumulation and cautious reasoning, while the former reaches its goal at once by intuition and presentation.
Science can get along with talent, but art requires genius.
Thanks for asking. Have a great day!
2007-10-08 23:49:16 · answer #2 · answered by Third P 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because i know the word very well, (im greek), atheist is the person who has no gods to serve or to follow! In the ancient Greece and the Romans, used to call atheist anyone who didn;t exercise the system of faith and belief to the 12 gods or to the roman gods. That doesn;t mean these people weren;t theists or they didn;t believe in other religions. Im irreligious, but a theist, i believe there is a deity who is taking care of people who believe, have positive energy, etc etc, that in ancient Greece could be called atheism. Today is just called theism. Today atheists use that word to describe the lack of belief, because of lack of any scientific proof! now that is interesting, most of the atheists want a scientific proof, it is not a matter of logic, because logically the existence of a deity can be, is not illogical, but it is not also scientifically proved. That is the part which i come to, against with some atheists, just because science haven;t yet be able to prove the existence of a god, we cannot state absolutely and insulting theists and religious people, that there is no god what so ever and call that logic! because then, that person needs a psychologist and a lesson of civilized manners! other than that, it is simple, and i have nothing against atheists! thanks
2016-05-19 21:59:45 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It became a pre-occupation in modernity because of the modern ethos to reject or severely qualify the transcendental qualities of the good, the true and the beautiful. Further, the exaultation of subjectivity in modernity as the norm of human experience led to an inability to offer objective judgements in regards to the disciplines of the arts and humanities. All the print and page that you are encountering is a reaction to this state of affairs.
2007-10-09 01:44:22 · answer #4 · answered by Timaeus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Art isn't something you should need to read 20 pages about!
Art just is! Its a creative expression.....
Why does it need to be defined in words?
2007-10-09 21:42:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that Art, in all its forms, is a type of language that helps us transmit a much deeper expression of our thoughts, ideas, feelings etc to others in our environment.
Because our brain and its mental contents are so complex we cannot use "everyday day" speech and text to convey the essences of our thoughts. Therefore we construct ways to impinge on the senses of others in ways that we hope connect more directly to the cognitive processes within the brains.
2007-10-09 12:19:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a professional artist, and sometimes I find it hard to define what art is myself!
You could start by saying what it is NOT. That too is very subjective.
2007-10-09 01:36:39 · answer #7 · answered by Orla C 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well remember that art plays an important role in philosophy, especially in aesthetics, it let us appreciate and be aware of small things which we often neglect.
2007-10-09 00:14:21 · answer #8 · answered by dudes 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So that you can give a better credit to the artist.
2007-10-09 04:19:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
art is in the eye of the beholder, everyone has their own opinion
2007-10-08 23:41:09 · answer #10 · answered by snuggles 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋