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Single Idea 8115
[filed under theme 21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 2. Art as Form
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Full Idea
Bell thinks that only artists can discern significant form directly in the natural world, and that all others must look to art for significant form.
Gist of Idea
Only artists can discern significant form; other people must look to art to find it
Source
report of Clive Bell (Art [1913]) by Sebastian Gardner - Aesthetics 3.3
Book Ref
'Philosophy: a Guide Through the Subject', ed/tr. Grayling,A.C. [OUP 1995], p.615
A Reaction
I have a horrible feeling that 'significant' form will turn out to be the sort of form that artists can see. Presumably the form spotted by geologists won't be quite so 'significant'. Not a promising theory.
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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23923
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Visual form can create a sublime mental state
[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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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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23924
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Maybe significant form gives us a feeling for ultimate reality
[Bell,C]
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23928
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Good art produces exaltation and detachment
[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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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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23932
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Art is the expression of an emotion for ultimate reality
[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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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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