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    This document provides an overview of three theories of art: formalism, expressionism, and hedonism. Formalism views art as a combination of visual elements like line, shape, and color, separate from representation. Expressionism sees art as the expression of an artist's emotions. Hedonism considers art solely for the pleasure it provides viewers. Theories are discussed through the works of philosophers like Bell, Tolstoy, and Hume as well as examples from artists like Kandinsky, Munch, and Van Gogh.

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    This document provides an overview of three theories of art: formalism, expressionism, and hedonism. Formalism views art as a combination of visual elements like line, shape, and color, separate from representation. Expressionism sees art as the expression of an artist's emotions. Hedonism considers art solely for the pleasure it provides viewers. Theories are discussed through the works of philosophers like Bell, Tolstoy, and Hume as well as examples from artists like Kandinsky, Munch, and Van Gogh.

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    Module 5: Art and Philosophy: Formalism, Expressionism, and Hedonism

    M5. Lecture 1 Formalist Theory of Art

     Formalism – Art is the combination of Perceptual Elements


     Form is the “sensuous elements in combination” – (Santayana)
     Visual Elements: Line, Shape, Value, Texture, Color (Form = Art)
     Art is NON-FIGURATIVE because it does not contain any representation

    Clive Bell (1881 – 1964)

     “To appreciate art, we bring with us nothing from life.” What is essential in art is only the
    “significant form.”
     “Art for Art’s Sake.” – THEOPILE GAUTIER
     “Artist need to look at nature and things only as forms made up of spheres, cylinders, cones.” –
    PAUL CEZANNE (1939 – 1906)
     “Art is putting mirror up to Nature” (SHAKESPEAR)

    Purely Formal Paintings


    Modernist Style in Philippine Painting

    Arabesque – formal geometrical design in Islamic art

    Taj Mahal, Agra,


    India, 6th Century

    WASSILY KANDINSKY (1881 – 1964)


    REPRESETATIONAL ART PURELY FORMAL ART
    Signs of Materialism in Would bring about
    Society Spiritual Life
     “Art is born from the inner necessity of the artist in an enigmatic, mystical way through
    which it acquires an autonomous life; it becomes an independent subject, animated by a
    spiritual breath.”
    Some Formal Paintings of Kandinsky

    M5. Lecture 2
    Expression Theory of
    Art
    Expression
     Aristotle – art is the expression of the artist’s overflowing emotion (catharsis).
     Susanne Langer – “Arts is the creation of symbolic forms expressive of human feelings.”
     Leo Tolstoy – “Art is the objectification of emotion.”
     Benedetto Croce – “Like language, art is the expression of idea by the artist
    (intuitionism).”

    Expressionist Paintings by Edvard


    Munch
     “For so long as I can remember, I
    suffered a deep of feeling of
    anxiety which I have tried to
    express in my art.”

    Van Gogh Self Portraits


     Show the Gradual transition of his Personality

    “I put my heart and soul in my work, I lost my


    mind in the process.”

    M5. Lecture 3 Aesthetic Hedonism


    Hedonism ARISTIPPUS (435-350 BC)
    EPICURUS (341-270 BC)
     Greek: Hedos “Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow you die.”
     English: Pleasure
     PLEASURE, Bodily, Sensual, Personal, Subjective, Relative, Temporal, Momentary,
    Limited, Gratifying EXPERIENCE
    Aesthetic Hedonism
     DAVID HUME: “Pleasure and pain are not only necessary attendants of beauty and
    deformity, but constitute their very essence.”
     ALBERT FAUROT: Art is meant only for “giving pleasure and life enhancement.”
     IMMANUEL KANT: Art is “play” and “fun”.
    Fast Food and Junk foods – delicious foods for the pleasure of eating but no nutritive value

    KAMA SUTRA (Art of Pleasure) – The experience of pleasure is one of the five aims of Hindu life
    necessary for a person to attain spiritual release or moksha.

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