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Single Idea 20420
[filed under theme 21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 4. Art as Expression
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Full Idea
The emotion expressed is one of whose nature the person feeling it is no longer conscious. As unexpressed, he feels it in a helpless and oppressed way; as expressed, the oppression has vanished. His mind is somehow lightened and eased.
Gist of Idea
The emotion expressed is non-conscious, but feels oppressive until expression relieves it
Source
R.G. Collingwood (The Principles of Art [1938], p.110), quoted by Gary Kemp - Croce and Collingwood 1
Book Ref
'Key Thinkers in Aesthetics', ed/tr. Giovannelli,Alessandro [Continuum 2012], p.103
A Reaction
It sounds like the regular smoking of cigarettes. This is Collingwood answer the doubts I felt about Idea 20419. I would have thought the desire of Picasso was to create another painting, but not to express yet another new oppressive feeling.
The
19 ideas
with the same theme
[personal expression is the essence of art]:
8119
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Art aims only at beauty, of form, of idea, and (above all) of expression
[Winckelmann, by Tolstoy]
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8120
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Objects can be beautiful which express nothing at all, such as the rainbow
[Herbart, by Tolstoy]
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8124
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The highest feelings of mankind can only be transmitted by art
[Tolstoy]
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8121
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Art is when one man uses external signs to hand on his feelings to another man
[Tolstoy]
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8122
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True works of art transmit completely new feelings
[Tolstoy]
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14835
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Artists are not especially passionate, but they pretend to be
[Nietzsche]
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20422
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The experience of expression and communication are intermingled in art
[Croce]
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23934
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The only expression art could have is the emotion resulting from pure form
[Bell,C]
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20420
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The emotion expressed is non-conscious, but feels oppressive until expression relieves it
[Collingwood]
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20331
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It is claimed that the expressive properties of artworks are non-physical
[Wollheim]
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20345
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Some say art must have verbalisable expression, and others say the opposite!
[Wollheim]
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18551
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Croce says art makes inarticulate intuitions conscious; rival views say the audience is the main concern
[Scruton]
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12165
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Romantics say music expresses ideas, or the Will, or intuitions, or feelings
[Scruton]
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12167
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Reference without predication is the characteristic of expression
[Scruton]
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20417
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Expression can be either necessary for art, or sufficient for art (or even both)
[Kemp]
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20419
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We don't already know what to express, and then seek means of expressing it
[Kemp]
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20418
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The horror expressed in some works of art could equallly be expressed by other means
[Kemp]
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20405
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Music may be expressive by being 'associated' with other emotional words or events
[Davies,S]
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20403
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It seems unlikely that sad music expresses a composer's sadness; it takes ages to write
[Davies,S]
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