What is Beauty?
What region of the world did Aristotle's ideas of beauty derive from?
Greece
Who was the mentor of both Aristotle and Plato that helped create a basis for their ideas and beliefs
Socrates
Due to his culture and upbringing what theory of art did Aristotle believe to be king
Realism
True or False
Aristotle believes that Peoples works of art will always be aesthetically better than the person or object that it originated from.
True
What did the Ancient Greeks consider beautiful?
Pretty much everything (they separated beauty between intrinsic and extrinsic property's so the way it looks or feels which contains just about all forms of art)
Ture or False?
Beauty is a quality that beautiful things have, regardless of the audience
True
(He believed that beautiful things simply existed because they were natural things hence having the quality of beauty since creation)
Aristotle worries about the overall morals and psychological effects of art
False
(He believes it offers visual satisfaction so that we do not act upon things experienced in art)
According to Aristotle, For art to be considered successful what should the art's goal be?
Present a subject in a way that invites the viewer to think
True or False
Aristotle's asthetic is based on order
True
(He believes that for a piece of art to be aesthetically pleasing it must have some form of order
True or false
according to Aristotle there is no one ideal form of beauty
True
It is said that Aristotle had a generally broad concept of beauty showing that beauty can be seen in anything that has organization and a purpose
What was Aristotle's main profession
(This helped shape his views of art and beauty)
How should art be interpreted?
the setting should be seen as mimicry of the original (all works of art should be judged in similar ways from the world inside and outside the work of art)
How Does Aristotle determine something beautiful?
he begins with overall knowledge of the subject first then appearance second