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[60] [note 11] Af Klint considered abstract art to be the "spiritual precursor of a utopian social harmony, a world of tomorrow." [ 64 ] According to Introvigne, only recently, after several exhibitions in different countries, she was recognized as an important European abstract artist.
Alberti was the creator of a theory called "historia". In his treatise De pictura (1435) he explains the theory of the accumulation of people, animals, and buildings, which create harmony amongst each other, and "hold the eye of the learned and unlearned spectator for a long while with a certain sense of pleasure and emotion".
Some art theorists have proposed that the attempt to define art must be abandoned and have instead urged an anti-essentialist theory of art. [9] In 'The Role of Theory in Aesthetics' (1956), Morris Weitz famously argues that individually necessary and jointly sufficient conditions will never be forthcoming for the concept 'art' because it is an ...
Arthur Wesley Dow was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1857. [3] Dow received his first art training in 1880 from Anna K. Freeland of Worcester, Massachusetts.The following year, Dow continued his studies in Boston [1] with James M. Stone, a former student of Frank Duveneck and Gustave Bouguereau.
3rd or 4th century CE Kamasutra, Vatsyayana, 13th-century Jayamangala commentary of Yashodhara, Bendall purchase 1885 CE.Kamasutra elaborate the idea of Shadanga. [6]The concept of the Six Limbs of Indian Painting, or Ṣaḍaṅga, finds its roots in ancient Indian texts and treatises on art and aesthetics, reflecting a holistic approach to artistic creation.
Owen of New Lanark and New Harmony. 2000; John F. C. Harrison, Robert Owen and the Owenites in Britain and America: Quest for the New Moral World. New York, 1969; Alexander Herzen, My Past and Thoughts (University of California Press, 1982). (One chapter is devoted to Owen.)
The idea that the world is moving towards self-expression values was discussed at length in an article in the Economist. [3] Expressing one's personality, emotions, or ideas through art, music, or drama, [4] is a way to reveal oneself to others in a way that is special to them. [5]
Aesthetic Realism is a philosophy founded in 1941 by the American poet and critic Eli Siegel (1902–1978). [1] He defined it as a three-part study: "[T]hese three divisions can be described as: One, Liking the world; Two, The opposites; Three, The meaning of contempt."