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Single Idea 8119
[filed under theme 21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 4. Art as Expression
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Full Idea
According to Winckelmann, the law and aim of all art is beauty, independent of goodness. The three kinds of beauty are of form, of idea, and of expression (the highest aim, attainable only when the other two are present).
Gist of Idea
Art aims only at beauty, of form, of idea, and (above all) of expression
Source
report of Johann Winckelmann (History of Ancient Art [1764]) by Leo Tolstoy - What is Art? Ch.3
Book Ref
Tolstoy,Leo: 'What is Art? and Essays on Art', ed/tr. Maude,A [OUP 1975], p.93
A Reaction
This sounds very like 'art for art's sake', but a hundred years earlier. This is quite a good distinction, and I particularly like the 'beauty of idea', which is often overlooked.
The
19 ideas
with the same theme
[personal expression is the essence of art]:
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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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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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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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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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