of all, body art can promote the self-awareness of people, which means one focuses attention on himself and understands personal features, feelings and behaviors. Body art has a strong impact on human vision and soul, because it can always catch the human nature and embodies the publicity of human nature (Greif, J., Hewitt, 1999). In fact, the body is the most primitive and natural expression of human beings, and the art of body is an external form of expression, taking the human nature as its main
Though humans often boast of their inability to be swayed or persuaded against a belief, they are easily malleable. The external environment plays a major role in the impressionable human perception. An individual’s view on certain aspects of their external environment, notably nature and its species, relies largely on publications and visual depictions. Through reflecting upon the concept of anthropomorphism, artists’ depictions of nature, and the common motif of nature and animals in the plays
Art features heavily in Arthur Schopenhauer’s “Will and Representation.” Schopenhauer had a complex and nuanced view of art’s profound effect on humanity and that effect’s importance to our everyday lives. His view does not however, exist in a vacuum. It is an integral part of his overarching theory on humanity and existence itself and therefore can only be fully appreciated with at least some reference to his other ideas. In this paper I will attempt to illustrate Schopenhauer’s philosophy of art
Imagine hiking and standing upon a mountain top and just basking in the beauty of the scenery around. Some people consider nature as the purest form of natural expression. Some artists consider nature as a medium of art. But what is a medium of art? Art is expressed to be man made, a form of human expression, a tale of beauty or tragedy. The world is a beautiful place filled with unique creatures, beautiful scenery and an overwhelming sense of power and importance. But a medium is considered
Possibilities of Art Before attempting to define art in even the most abstract of terms, I must preface with an apologia, for any definition of art dooms itself to failure as long as it attempts to categorize together objects or actions which belong to no unified category. Where does one set boundaries to determine the limits of the category ‘art’? Mine will serve only to elaborate my own personal opinions as there exists no objective method of evaluation for a definition of art as a whole
This method of using these components to decide what is art is not full proof; there may be exceptions to the established criteria. But this is not a unique problem to art; there are exceptions in any field you look at. For example, in the rules of writing and spelling almost every language has exceptions to the general rules of how the language works. However, society still values these rules and finds them useful. The same is true with art. We can make general rules as long as we acknowledge the
It is on high debate about what art is. Several argue that art consists of two main purposes, which are if art is a imitation of nature and if art is a language. Plato specifically conducted two theories on art imitation. He saw the world as poor and a changeless original. For example a sunset, or a sunflower is an imperfect copy of beauty itself. Pluto also believed that all of the arts strongly influence our behaviors, which lead to his second theory that art imitates the objects and events of
Comparing Roman and Greek Art Throughout history art has consistently reflected the cultural values and social structures of individual civilizations. Ancient art serves as a useful tool to help historians decipher some important aspects of ancient culture. From art we can determine the basic moral and philosophical beliefs of many ancient societies. The differences in arts purpose in Greece and Rome, for example, show us the fundamental differences in each culture's political and moral
role of art in human life has been studied by several philosophers throughout time. Frederik Schiller (1795-1805), in his “Letters On the Aesthetic Education of Man” develops the theory of the drives to explain the fragmentation of the human being and places art in a reconciliatory role between man’s personal nature and the community. The present essay will discuss in some detail Schiller’s theory of the drives, placing the main focus on the role and importance of the play-drive in human life, to
Virtues and Vices of Decadent Art: Which is more prominent? Introduction The “Decadent Art” era is marked with the art and literature works which according to the decadent artists are considered beyond any moral or ethical obligations to the society and explore the realism of the society. According to the decadent artists such as Oscar Wilde, Joris-Karl Huysman’s, and others, the decadent art was necessary to dazzle the masses and awaken them and show them the reality of their life and their