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"l'art pour l'art"
Art for art's sake. The phrase l'art pour l'art
originates with French Philosopher Victor Cousin
(1792-1867) in 1818. It connotes the ideal of artistic
autonomy: art should never be judged according to
moral, political, or social standards. This position
was popularized by early Romantics (e.g., Samuel
Taylor Coleridge, J.W. von Goethe) and then again
by the late 19th century movement, Aestheticism
(e.g., Walter Pater and his student, Oscar Wilde).
The idea is frequently, but
mistakenly, attributed to Kant's Critique
of Judgment.
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INNERER KLANG
Inner sounding.
Kandinsky's later
references to Madame Blavatsky and to Theosophy suggest that he has a
very particular interpretation of this idea, according to which this
inner sounding is an unmediated mystical vision of a higher
spiritual reality. Theosophy teaches that the human person is composed
of seven types of matter corresponding to seven different planes of
reality; our physical bodies are composed of the least refined type of
matter. Inner
sounding would be an experience of one of the non-physical planes of
the self.
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Post-Impressionism (1880-1900)
was an artistic movement during that followed Impressionism.
The term Post-Impressionism was originally used by the English art critic Roger Fry for the work of such late 19th-century painters
(mostof them French) as Paul Cézanne, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Henri de
Toulouse-Lautrec. Most Post-Impressionist artists studied with
Impressionists before developing their own styles. Where
impressionists generally sought to capture the actual look of
natural scenes, the post-impressionists emphasized emotion and symbolic Their
work contained bold, unrealistic colors and visible, expressive brushstrokes.
Post-Impressionism bridged the gap between Impressionism and 1900s-Fauvism,
Cubism, and abstract art.
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Cubists
Cubism appeared between about 1908 and 1912, simultaneously
developing through a close collaboration between Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Their
most immediate influence was the work of Paul
Cezanne. Cubism attempted to capture the essence of objects by
simultaneously representing each object from multiple points of view. The movement itself was not
very widespread, but its spirit of experimentation inspired other
painters to try even more radical approaches to perspective and
representation.
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Giotto
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The Banishment of Joachim from the Temple. Fresco
GIOTTO (c. 1267 - 1337)
(Ambrogio Bondone) |
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El Greco
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Agony in the
Garden, c.1595
El Greco (1541-1614) (Domenikos Theotocopoulos)
His nickname means "The Greek" |
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Goya
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Daumier
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