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Intro Activity
What is Beauty?
Can you draw Beauty?
Can you describe something beautiful by
hearing it?
Intro Activity
Look at the following Type of style
works of Art and note Its use
the following Its importance
Your interpretation
Emperor Augustus
Ceiling of Sistine Chapel
Tiffany Lamp
The Potato Eaters by Van Gogh
Water Lilly Pond by Monet
Don Quixote by Picasso
Eyes in Heat by Pollock
Campbell's Soup Can by Warhol
Questions
What is art? Are these pieces of Art?
Function: noun
2. A branch of philosophy dealing with the
nature of art and beauty.
The philosophy of aesthetics
asks and tries to answer the
Big Questions:
What is art?
What makes a piece of art beautiful?
How important are personal tastes when judging
the quality of art?
What are the standards for judging art?
Why is originality so important in art? How do we
define what is original or what is creative?
What makes a work of art original or
creative?
Andy Warhol, Electric Chair, 1971, Published Edition, 137/250 screen print on paper, 35 1/2 x 48 in. AWF
Eduardo Juantegui
Aesthetic theories provide
different answers to these
questions: