Browsing: Philosophy of Art

Kant’s aesthetics connects judgement, disinterested pleasure, subjective universality, purposiveness without purpose, free play, Schein, the sublime, genius, and aesthetic ideas.

Hegel’s aesthetic terminology links spirit, representation, concept, appearance, content and form, expression, artistic forms, genres, and the Concrete Idea within a unified philosophy of art.

The Palais Garnier sculptures evoke the mythic bond between Orpheus and Eurydice through figures identified by their names in Greek.

Morandi’s restrained still-life composition transforms ordinary vessels, muted colour, spatial distance, and silence into an inward meditation upon perception and time.