Throughout this essay I will attempt to draw similarities between one of America’s fine artists, Vija Celmins and two philosophical aesthetics theories; the sublime and simulacra. I will discuss both the resemblances and the differences between the theories and a work by Celmins in the 1980s, “Constellation – Uccello.” Vija Celmins is a well respected [...]
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Vija Celmins in respect to philosophical aesthetics, the sublime and simulacra
Posted in Les notes sur la belle artistes, tagged aesthetic theory, art, baudrillard, burke, chalice, constellation - uccello, critique of judgement, essay, Friedrich, hyperreality, italian renaissance, kant, manhood, mathematical and sublime, nightsky, Philosophy, replica, san romano, simulacra, simulacrum, source materials, sublime, thomas cole, vija celmins, voyage of life, wandere above the sea of fog, web on June 8, 2010 | 3 Comments »
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 »
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. [...]
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 [...]
New Project – create your own brief
Posted in Artsy, The Other Stoof, tagged brief, contemporary art, Dundee contemporary arts, fate, forecasting, gods, HND contemporary art practice, Mayan, Met office, Philosophy, plato, predictions, project, society, Spencer Finch, terrorism, time travel, value, war, Weather on September 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So I went through some ideas in my head and on paper to try and decide which topic to go for. really wanted to investigate the value of art and the money side to it as I had done before, but I knew that three weeks was not long enoug a time for me to [...]
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 [...]
