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What is the Philosophy of Art?
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<blockquote data-quote="Ophiolite" data-source="post: 77638526" data-attributes="member: 234799"><p>I'll also focus on fine art. If I have a favourite artist Dali would be a hot contender. (Only Turner, or one of the French Impressionists might get a look in.) With Dali it is the colour and the novelty that attract. It's probably the same for the others.</p><p>Dali's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_of_Saint_John_of_the_Cross" target="_blank">Christ of Saint John of the Cross</a> hangs in Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. When I first saw it I knew nothing of the controversy over its purchase, or critical dismissal of it in some quarters of the art community. At that time it lacked the attention (as a major attraction) the gallery now accords it. It sat on a half landing, facing the visitor climbing to the upper floor. I was simply stunned by the unusual perspective and the power of the dark blues. Since the gallery is half a kilometre from the university at which I studied, I visited a few times, but not so often as to become sated. I still try to visit it on those rare occassions I am in Glasgow, but these days - because of its popularity - the opportunity to stand alone and contemplate it in silecne has gone.</p><p></p><p>Well, that's plausible and you are merely wondering, but it would need a substantial number of examples and tightly reasoned argument to turn it into a substantive case. I have little doubt that there is a whole school of art appreciation and analysis that has published dozens of books and hundreds of research papers on the that very point. You might find a search for them fruitful.</p><p></p><p>Huh! The Cold War began arguably while Hitler's ashes were still cooling outside his bunker and certainly by the late 40s.</p><p></p><p>We don't, but I think we can say with a fair degree of confidence that they had no effective impact on those policies. For example, the only thing Reagan's Star Wars program took from the film franchise was the name: a clever piece of marketing to make the program more desirable.</p><p></p><p>That's an interesting thought. I've never heard that argument before. If anything people seem to me to gravitate towards art they are familiar with and that art they like. Yes, that behaviour may well arise from a distaste for progress (I would prefer change, not progress), but does not seem to me to lead to a dislike for art. Dislike of art has more the appearance of an anti-intellectual stance.</p><p></p><p>Humans are excellent problem solvers. (We have to be, as we are superlative at creating them.) One very effective form of problem solving is lateral thinking, where one views a topic from a different and perhaps unique perspective. Artists simply employ this skill to project novel ways of looking at the world. Thus art, in its many forms, is a fortuitious side effect of that problem solving ability. (I think music, with its mathematical aspects, may also draw on a related skill set of mathematical apptitude.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ophiolite, post: 77638526, member: 234799"] I'll also focus on fine art. If I have a favourite artist Dali would be a hot contender. (Only Turner, or one of the French Impressionists might get a look in.) With Dali it is the colour and the novelty that attract. It's probably the same for the others. Dali's [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_of_Saint_John_of_the_Cross']Christ of Saint John of the Cross[/URL] hangs in Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. When I first saw it I knew nothing of the controversy over its purchase, or critical dismissal of it in some quarters of the art community. At that time it lacked the attention (as a major attraction) the gallery now accords it. It sat on a half landing, facing the visitor climbing to the upper floor. I was simply stunned by the unusual perspective and the power of the dark blues. Since the gallery is half a kilometre from the university at which I studied, I visited a few times, but not so often as to become sated. I still try to visit it on those rare occassions I am in Glasgow, but these days - because of its popularity - the opportunity to stand alone and contemplate it in silecne has gone. Well, that's plausible and you are merely wondering, but it would need a substantial number of examples and tightly reasoned argument to turn it into a substantive case. I have little doubt that there is a whole school of art appreciation and analysis that has published dozens of books and hundreds of research papers on the that very point. You might find a search for them fruitful. Huh! The Cold War began arguably while Hitler's ashes were still cooling outside his bunker and certainly by the late 40s. We don't, but I think we can say with a fair degree of confidence that they had no effective impact on those policies. For example, the only thing Reagan's Star Wars program took from the film franchise was the name: a clever piece of marketing to make the program more desirable. That's an interesting thought. I've never heard that argument before. If anything people seem to me to gravitate towards art they are familiar with and that art they like. Yes, that behaviour may well arise from a distaste for progress (I would prefer change, not progress), but does not seem to me to lead to a dislike for art. Dislike of art has more the appearance of an anti-intellectual stance. Humans are excellent problem solvers. (We have to be, as we are superlative at creating them.) One very effective form of problem solving is lateral thinking, where one views a topic from a different and perhaps unique perspective. Artists simply employ this skill to project novel ways of looking at the world. Thus art, in its many forms, is a fortuitious side effect of that problem solving ability. (I think music, with its mathematical aspects, may also draw on a related skill set of mathematical apptitude.) [/QUOTE]
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