Views of Beauty
Since beauty is considered to be in the thing perceived, this view concludes that beauty is objective
Classical
Created the Golden Ratio, the Last Supper, etc
Leonardo Da Vinci
This is a symbol containing a quality of what it represents
sacred
connected with God (or the gods) or dedicated to a religious purpose and so deserving veneration.
Who wrote "The Bible and Christian Imagination?"
N.T. Wright
This view of beauty believes there is no objective truth or reality and beauty is the perceiver.
Post Modern
Criticized aestheticism and the classical view by saying “These things – the beauty, the memory of our own past – are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself, they turn into dumb idols, breaking the hearts of their worshippers”
C.S. Lewis
This is "the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit"
Beauty
secular
denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis.
What country was the sculptor "Tree of Life" from?
This view proclaims that beauty of any object is its capacity to proclaim truth and to realize goodness.
Christian view
Said the beautiful is the good. Beauty becomes the purpose of life, and aesthetics provides the basis for ethics
Plato
This is the faculty or action of forming new ideas, or images or concepts of external objects not present to the senses.
Imagination
Creatio ex Nihilo
Latin, creation out of nothing. Theological idea that God created everything out of nothing.
Fill in the blank:
If it’s bad art, it’s bad ________, no matter how pious the subject.
religion
What are the limits of the classical view?
There are plenty of things that are not symmetrical that are good or beautiful.
Said “The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate to a special degree”
Aristotle
This has 3 elements:
1. Someone made it
2. Its appearance has the potential to reward those who pay attention to it
3. It can be appreciated for its beauty
Art
Kalos
Greek for good or beauty
What did Andy Crouch say art was?
the aspects of culture that could not be reduced to utility
What are the limits of the post modern view?
Definition of beauty says it is in the art, but they also say that beauty is in the beholder and not the art. It is a contradiction.
Wrote The Kanon - published the numbers of perfect beauty - simple ratios
Polycleitos
When the main purpose of a made object is to reward aesthetic contemplation, it is considered this.
Fine Art
Kabod
God's glory (perfections put on display)
What is the name of Chapter 1 in Madeline L'Engle's Walking on Water
Cosmos from Chaos