a theory of art2014 derek dey

a theory of art: index

• Theory of Art (Unification Thought)I.   The Divine Principle Foundation for the New Theory of Art II.  Art and Beauty III. The Dual Purpose of Artistic Activity: Creation and Appreciation IV. Requisites for Artistic Appreciation V. Technique, Materials, and Style in Artistic Creation VI. Requisites for Artistic Appreciation VII.Unity in Art VIII.Art and Ethics IX. Types of BeautyX.  A Critique and Counterproposal to Socialist Realismfull text here: http://www.unification-thought.org/neut/Neut07.html

cover: stephen knapp / universe / frank stella / roberto matta / sam francis / orange lily above: dance / universe / yayoi kusama / robyn denny / dance studio / sound bar

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a theory of art

• purpose • celebration • creativity - two stage structure • Logos as a plan • method

3paul klee

art and beauty • art and joy / resemblance / complementarity

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what is beauty ?

• emotional force • determination of beauty • elements of beauty

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dual purposes of artistic activity

• creation < and > • appreciation

frank stella / richard serra / sam francis / david hockney 6

requisites for artistic creation• motif (purpose) • theme • conception

rodin-thinker

maitreya bodhisatva

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for the subject

object consciousness

• joy to God • joy for others • express goodness • promote hope in the future • express beauty / mystery

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object consciousness (renaissance)

michelangelo raphael leonardo

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individuality

beethoven / mahler / schubert

beatles whitney houston richie havens

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requisite for the object

• art reflects the artists Sungsang • components reflect harmony • golden section / mean • beauty / proportion

euclid: golden section

euclid / proportion / parthenon / vitruvius / pyramids / chartre11

technique, materials, style in artistic creation (preamble)

heart: inner SS-HS purpose / logos

universal two stage structure

technique / material12

technique material style (example)

dynamic

material

work

isamu noguchi

motif

work of art

conception medium

subject matter

heart motif

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heart

SS HS

union

SS HS

union

heart

new being phenomenology

creativity

inner outer>>>

purpose purpose

SS - sungsang HS - hyungsang

various styles• idealism

raphael-idealism

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various styles• classicism

jean-auguste ingres / goethe (faust) / jacques-louis david 15

various styles• romanticism

lord byron / victor hugo (les miserables) / theodore gericault / emanuel leutze

Margaret Drabble: in literature, romanticism takes place "roughly between 1770 and 1848”

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various styles• realism

jean-francois millet / jean-baptiste-camille corot / gustave courbet / gustave flaubert / emile zola 17

various styles• symbolism

arthur rimbaud / verlaine and the bloomsbury group

symbolist art: gustave klimt / edward burne-jones

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various styles• impressionism

claude monet / edgar degas / pierre-auguste renoir / berthe morisot19

various styles• cubism

jean metzinger / georges braque / albert gleizes / paul cezanne / pablo picasso 20

various styles• unificationism

author’s work / new york city symphony orchestra / little angels / universal ballet / sun hwa arts school / kirov academy of ballet

idealism<>realism (heart / hope / individuality)

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requisites for artistic appreciation

• appreciation for art

• clear mind

• broad interest philosophy history psychology etc

• empathy for internal-external qualities

paintings: rogier van der weyden and phillip otto runge 22

requisites for the object in appreciation

• harmony of elements • appreciators

resemblance to works • appropriate

environment for worksjohannes vermeer / henry moore 23

judgement of beauty• value emerges from the

co-relative relationship • beauty is determined by

the appreciator and the requisites

• beauty + emotional function of appreciator = beauty (beauty does not exist objectively)

• aesthetic judgement <> cognitive judgement work together

purpose

subject object

beauty(E) cognition(I)

I E WPrototype

I-intellect E-emotion W-will

sense content

aesthetic judgement and cognitive judgement

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unity in artpairs of correlative aspects (elements) involved in artistic activities, including creation and appreciation, content and form, universality and individuality, and eternity and temporality are synthesized.

creation and appreciation

content and form

universality and individuality

eternity and temporality

motif theme conception

<> form materials

leonardo da vinci / paul cezzane / buddha / vitruvian man / jean-francois millet

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unity in art: fallingwater - an architectural example Frank Lloyd Wright used circle square triangle and harmony in his work / the client

contemplates this waterfall from a rock - the architect builds here with the rock appearing through the floor at the hearth / the waterfall and rock layers are repeated in the architectural form / the sound of the waterfall and the rock are retained for the client

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art and ethics• ethics predicated on a true self • the artist as a mature self - individuated • Oscar Wilde / Lord Byron / Leo Tolstoy

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types of beautytypes of beauty from the perspective of unification thought - love and beauty

categories predicated to love

• husband • wife

• children (brothers and sisters)

thomas gainsborough / nathaniel dance / johannes vermeer / john everett millais / lord leighton 28

categories• Fatherly beauty : strict beauty, magnanimous beauty, broad beauty,

solemn beauty, profound beauty, awesome beauty, etc. • Motherly beauty : graceful beauty, noble beauty, warm-hearted

beauty, delicate beauty, gentle beauty, passionate beauty, etc. • Husband’s beauty : masculine beauty, active beauty, trustworthy

beauty, courageous beauty, resolute beauty, brave beauty, prudent beauty, etc.

• Wife’s beauty : feminine beauty, passive beauty, supportive beauty, obedient beauty, calm beauty, tender beauty, cheerful beauty, reserved beauty, etc.

• Son’s beauty : filial beauty, obedient beauty, dependent beauty, youthful beauty, comical beauty, cute beauty, all of which have boyish characteristics, etc.

• Daughter’s beauty : filial beauty, obedient beauty, dependent beauty, youthful beauty, comical beauty, cute beauty, all of which have girlish characteristics, etc.

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traditional types of beauty

grace “grazie”

sublime “erabenheit”

Kant: beauty has components of free beauty (anhängende Schönhei) / other categories are: dependent beauty / pure beauty (Reinschöne) / tragic beauty

(Tragische) / comical beauty (Komische)

NB beauty can be traced to Platonic ideas though this is not grace per se (Eros - The Symposium) / Sublime is first mentioned by Longinus (Gk) then Edmund Burke 1757 / Kant discusses the sublime in the Critique of Judgement 1790 30

father - sublime

jmw turner / albert bierstadt / caspar david friedrich / gabriel dawe / mark rothko / edwin church31

mother - beauty

peder kroyer / henry holiday / teri gileki / zaha hadid (architect) / zou chuan / helen frankenthaler / olga boznańska / botticelli

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childrenchildren’s art - anonymous / warner bros / disney / pixar

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traditional types of beautyLonginus 1st C - Edmund Burke 1756 - Imanuel Kant 1764-90 grace / free beauty / dependent beauty / pure beauty / tragic beauty / such terms of ambiguity are replaced by more definite types of love

thomas cole / caspar david friedrich / edwin church / jmw turner / egyptian / polykleitos / sandro botticelli / leonardo da vinci

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critique / a counterproposal to socialist realismGorky: art as a midwife to socialism / a gravedigger to capitalism Stalin: art as themes of reform / revolution

nikolay bogdanov-belsky (gorky) / aleksander gerasimov (stalin and vorshilov) / unknown (n-korea ) / fyodor shurpin (stalin)35

critiques of socialist realismLenin Stalin / art - literature must belong to the party Mao Ze-Dong / Herbert Read / Ilya Ehrenburg

“What is described in a book depicting weaving women in a spinning mill is not a human being but a machine, and not human feelings but merely the process of production.” - Ehrenburg

Yohan Chosocialist realism: such writing could never express a person’s internal world.

liu chunhua / chinese poster / herbert read / ilya ehrenberg 36

indictment of communism by notable writersAndre Gide: “In the U.S.S.R. everybody knows beforehand, once and for all, that on any and every subject there can be only one opinion.... So that every time you talk to one Russian you feel as if you were talking to them all.”

Boris Pasternak: Dr Zhivago revolution or a philosophy of love

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: “It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.”

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errors in the communist theory of artsocial realism: a failure to create beauty / joy denial of God /enforced arbitrary standards love beauty and natural ethics Vs enforced conformity art is not part of the superstructure / not a servant of an economic theory

Marx floundered: Greek culture should disappear - yet it remains relevant Gorky’s “Mother” promoted violent revolution Vs Tolstoy’s internal revolution social evils are not welcome by anyone / however internal reform is

UT: reformation comes from a correct understanding of God and self - it seeks an original ideal and an original self fully individuated

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