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  • Everyone is different
  • Judgements will be different
  • Beauty has many forms
  • No definite answer

  • NOTIONS OF BEAUTY ARE SUBJECTIVE

Abraham Lubelski

  • "Black Square against white background became the symbol, the basic element in the system of the art of Suprematism, the step into the new art."

Vittorio Sgarbi

  • "The experience of viewing the painting thus involves a feeling of pain brought about by the breakdown of representation followed by a powerful sense of relief, even elation"

Alexandre Benois

  • "Blasphemy"

Arts

Definition:

The expression of creative skill through a visual medium such as painting or sculpture

History

CULTURE

America

Original

Morocco

Focus

Definition:

Past events connected with someone or something

TIME

Subject matter

Knowledge Claim

Perspective

Hue

Germany

Counter Claim

21st century

Everyone's history is different, therefore so are their conceptions of beauty

Australia

Texture

Background

India

Aren't professionals who expertise in an area able to make objective judgments using a set criteria?

20th century

personal experience

Composition

cultural conditioning

societal values

What is Beauty?

The Black Square by Kasimir Malevich- 1915

Definition:

Combination of qualities

  • shape
  • colour
  • form

that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight.

So...

CAN beauty be defined?

NOTIONS OF BEAUTY ARE SUBJECTIVE

There is no scale to measure beauty

Personal opinion -> affected by

  • Emotion
  • Personal experience
  • Cultural background
  • Societal values

What makes a person beautiful?

What makes piece of artwork beautiful?

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"

Conclusion

  • Conceptions of beauty in art are subjective
  • Each art critic's "criteria" may be different
  • Even if the "criteria" is the same, the way different critics asses them will vary
  • Due to their different HISTORY

Objective vs Subjective Notions

Subjective:

Personal opinions, interpretations

Emotion,

Notions

Conception or belief about something

Objective:

Fact based, measurable, detached

TO WHAT EXTENT ARE NOTIONS OF BEAUTY OBJECTIVE OR SUBJECTIVE?

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