Single Idea 23932

[catalogued under 21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 1. Defining Art]

Full Idea

My hypothesis is that art is the expression of an emotion for ultimate reality.

Gist of Idea

Art is the expression of an emotion for ultimate reality

Source

Clive Bell (Art [1913], II.II)

Book Reference

Bell,Clive: 'Art' [nk 2010], p.37


A Reaction

So later in his discussion the word 'ultimate' has crept in, after a chapter about the close relation between religious and artistic attitudes. He also sees good art as deeply 'spiritual'. It seems that religious belief is essential to his theory of art.