An object created by humans with the intention of communicating an idea/principle
What is Art?
Intellectual Participation (Science)
What is Truth?
Themes:
Competition
Urbanization
Economic Production
Marketability
What is Modernism?
Created around the goal of friendship
What is architecture?
Behavioral Participation (Morality)
What is Goodness?
Themes:
Transcendence
Balance
Pattern
Light
City of God
What is the Gothic?
Universal Cohesion and Mass production
Items are without individuality and are alienating
What is System B?
The (thing) which brings pleasure (joy) to the senses
What is beauty?
Themes:
Awesomeness
Drama
Harmony
Movement
Divine Embrace
What is the Renaissance/Baroque?
Certain religious practices are intended to evoke the soul (piety)
What is the horizontal dimension?
An Objective thing, but experienced subjectively
What is beauty?
Themes:
Transcendence
Balance
Symmetry
The Golden Ratio
What is the Classical Era?