Reviewer in Arts Appreciation
Reviewer in Arts Appreciation
Reviewer in Arts Appreciation
1. Material World
2. Ideal World/World of Forms/Ideas
CHAPTER 5: ARTISTIC EXPRESSION (The Real World)
IN DIFFERENT FORMS
Reason for Plato’s Opposition on Artists
4 Forms of Art
1. Visual Arts *Artists appeal to emotion rather
-Painting than to the rational faculty of people.
-Sculpture
-Architecture *Artists imitate rather than lead one
2. Performing Arts to reality.
-Music *Poetry arouses emotions and
-Dance feelings thus, clouds people’s rationality.
-Film
-Theatre
-Literary According to Plato, art must be BANISHED
-Performance Poetry alongside the practitioners, so that the
3. Digital Arts attitudes and actions of the people will not
-Graphic be corrupted by the influence of arts.
4. Applied Arts
-Fashion Design Art is DANGEROUS. It provides a petty
-Furniture replacement for real entities that can only be
-Interior Design attained through reasons.
CHAPTER 6: PHILOSOPHICAL
PERSPECTIVES
3. ART AS REPRESENTATION by
1. ART AS MIMESIS by Plato Aristotle
Artists- Imitators Aristotle agreed with Plato that Art is
Arts- Imitation Imitation.
He advises against the inclusion of art as a He considered art as an aid to philosophy in
subject in the curriculum and the banning of revealing truth/reality.
artists in The Republic.
The kind of imitation that art does is not
The Republic is a dialog-based text that antithetical to the reaching of fundamental
discusses justice and happiness. It is also a truths in the world.
detailed description of the creation of a city
Representation always involves a certain
that has the following virtues or qualities
degree of abstraction- that is, the taking
that are also shard by its people: moderation,
away of one characteristic or more of the
courage, justice, and wisdom.
original.
In Platos’s view of reality, the things in this
Imitation is the representation of nature in
world are only copies of the original, the
the medium of human actions.
external, and true entities can only be found
in the World of Ideas/Forms.
He believes that by focusing on nature and
its unique characteristics, an artist can create
works that are true reflections of reality. 5. ART AS COMMUNICATION OF
EMOTIONS by Leo Tolstoy
According to Aristotle, art is ultimately a
form of imitation that enables us to better Art plays a huge role in communication to
understand and appreciate the world around its audience emotions that the artist
us. previously experienced.
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