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Single Idea 23924
[filed under theme 21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 2. Art as Form
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Full Idea
When we strip things of all associations and significance, what is left is 'the thing in itself', or 'ultimate reality'. …Artists can express an emotion felt for reality through line and colour. …So through 'significant form' we sense ultimate reality.
Gist of Idea
Maybe significant form gives us a feeling for ultimate reality
Source
Clive Bell (Art [1913], I.III)
Book Ref
Bell,Clive: 'Art' [nk 2010], p.20
A Reaction
[compressed] The thing in itself is a Kantian idea. He offers this as a speculation, rather than a fact. Maybe quantum physics gets us closer to the thing in itself? Bell knows that his faith in significant form needs more justification than an emotion.
The
18 ideas
from 'Art'
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8115
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Only artists can discern significant form; other people must look to art to find it
[Bell,C, by Gardner]
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23922
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The word 'beauty' leads to confusion, because it denotes distinct emotions
[Bell,C]
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23921
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Our feeling for natural beauty is different from the aesthetic emotion of art
[Bell,C]
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23923
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Visual form can create a sublime mental state
[Bell,C]
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23925
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Mere copies of pictures are not significant - unless the copies are very exact
[Bell,C]
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23926
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Art is distinguished by its aesthetic emotion, which produces appropriate form
[Bell,C]
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23927
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Aestheticism invites artist to create beauty, but with no indication of how to do it
[Bell,C]
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23928
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Good art produces exaltation and detachment
[Bell,C]
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23924
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Maybe significant form gives us a feeling for ultimate reality
[Bell,C]
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23929
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We only see landscapes as artistic if we ignore their instrumental value
[Bell,C]
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23930
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Religion sees infinite value in some things, and irrelevance in the rest
[Bell,C]
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23931
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Significant form is the essence of art, which I believe expresses an emotion about reality
[Bell,C]
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23932
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Art is the expression of an emotion for ultimate reality
[Bell,C]
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22691
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Only artistic qualities matter in art, because they also have the highest moral value
[Bell,C]
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23933
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Aesthetic contemplation is the best and most intense mental state
[Bell,C]
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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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23935
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Aesthetic experience is an exaltation which increases the possibilities of life
[Bell,C]
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20434
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'Form' is visual relations, and it is 'significant' if it moves us aesthetically; art needs both
[Bell,C, by Feagin]
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