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Single Idea 23934
[filed under theme 21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 4. Art as Expression
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Full Idea
If art expresses anything, it expresses an emotion felt for pure form and that which gives pure form its extraordinary significance.
Gist of Idea
The only expression art could have is the emotion resulting from pure form
Source
Clive Bell (Art [1913], III.I)
Book Ref
Bell,Clive: 'Art' [nk 2010], p.48
A Reaction
I don't think 'expresses' is the right word here. Artists express, but works just transmit. I personally doubt whether anything can have 'extraordinary significance' simply because it expresses one particular emotion. Why art, but not geometry?
The
18 ideas
from Clive Bell
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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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