Vija Celmins is my favourite artist right now, her exhibit at the Artist Rooms has made me go back twice already and there’s another trip planned for monday. Really think she is brilliant, so I’m writing my philosophy essay on her work. We have to choose two philosophical aesthetics theories and interpret them to the work. [...]
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Vija Celmins
Posted in Les notes sur la belle artistes, Philosophy, tagged 1938, 2d, 3D, artist rooms, chalice, concentric beraings, constellation - uccello, creator, desert, drawings, exhibit, germany, god, heater, hyperrealism, jupiter moon - constellation, latvia, marcel duchamp, modern art gallery edinburgh, nightsky, Philosophy, prints, rendering, representation, rotary glass plates, rotation, sea, snapshots, space, spider, spiderwebs, sublime, universe, vija celmins, woodcut on October 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Romanticism and The Sublime
Posted in Les notes sur la belle artistes, Philosophy, time travel, tagged anacreon, beauty, boat, breathing sublime, childhood, colour, creation, drowning, edmund burke, fear, Friedrich, german romanticism, hugo wolf, ice, inifinite, manhood, mathematical sublime, meditation, modernism, new new romantics, old age, Philosophy, renovation, romantic, romanticism, sublime, temeraire, the fighting temeraire, the voyage of life, thomas cole, tranquility, turner, vintage, wanderer above the sea of fog, wikipedia, yauger williams, youth on September 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I thought thats a brilliant introduction to romanticism (german romanticism anyway) but beautiful nonetheless. Making something simple like a gravestone of Anakreon , a Greek poet most notable for his drinking songs haha (thats according to wikipedia so may not be true). That song represents one time in my life where I have felt sublime [...]
Parallel Universes
Posted in 2D, Artsy, Conceptual, Philosophy, time travel, tagged architects, awe-inspiring, decisions, drawing, existence, manifesto, map, parallel universe, romantics, rotring pens, sublime, time, universe, verse on September 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So, after much thought as to what the theme actually meant for me I decided to do a piece which didn’t rely on a huge massive impacting concept. So I looked into expressing my views through a map (my favourite of all mediums) of time. This involved me doing a drawing or designing my idea [...]
Our first Philosophical Aesthetics seminar
Posted in Philosophy, tagged aristotle, art, capitalist market, catharsis, divine representation, influence, italian renaissance, joseph kosuth, nature of art, oedipus, one and three chairs, pale mirror, Philosophy, plato, reality, sensuous, society on September 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Really was something to think about this. So we talked over Plato and Aristotle and all the way up to 18th Century stuff, I hope I got it. I certainly was entertained by the talk of these two philosophical giants and their work. There were three things that Jennie got us to look over once [...]
