Hegel and the Arts : Hegel and the Arts A Presentation on Hegel's Theory of Art
By Robbert Veen
HegelCourses.com
What are we going to do? : What are we going to do? 1. Art and the Absolute
2. The history of Art
3. The Birth of Modern Art
1. Art and the Absolute : 1. Art and the Absolute 1. Art is a form of consciousness
Together with Religion and Philosophy (Science) it is the self-expression of the Absolute Spirit.
Spirit= the Totality of nature and human culture in history
1. Art and the Absolute : 1. Art and the Absolute 1. Art is a form of consciousness
2. A consciousness of the Absolute
1. Art and the Absolute : 1. Art and the Absolute 1. Art is a form of consciousness
2. A consciousness of the Absolute
3. Embodied in a work of Art
1. Art and the Absolute : 1. Art and the Absolute 1. Art is a form of consciousness
2. A consciousness of the Absolute
3. Embodied in a work of Art
4. Artist, observer, critic, history combined
1. Art and the Absolute : 1. Art and the Absolute Walter Benjamin in 1920:
All critique must take place in view of...an Absolute that is absolutely transcendent, radically distinguished from everything profane or finite. Between it and the latter, no continuity is thinkable. Yet critique is a relating to such an absolute.
2. History of Art : 2. History of Art 1.Symbolic Art
'Sensuous representation of an idea.'
2. History of Art : 2. History of Art 2. Classical Art
'Identity between shape and content.'
2. History of Art : 2. History of Art 3. Romantic Art
'Expression of the absolute interiority.'
Symbolic Art: Lascaux : Symbolic Art: Lascaux
Slide 12 :
Classical Art : Classical Art Example of a Greek statue.
Hegel: the expression of free subjectivity embodied in a beautiful shape.
Classical Art : Classical Art Zeus from Cape
Mixtures : Mixtures Christ Pantocrator
Hegel: Byzantine Art mixes the Symbolic with the Classical
Romantic Art : Romantic Art Crucifixion by Masaccio
Romantic Art : Romantic Art Durer: Mary Praying
Hegel: presentation of the Absolute as Religion
Before Hegel: Art becomes Reflective : Before Hegel: Art becomes Reflective Velazquez
Las Meninas : Las Meninas
Las Meninas : Las Meninas The Artist portrays himself
The occasion for the painting
The royals are in the position of the viewer
Reflection of the observation of a painting
Slide 21 :
Art? Hegel's Ignored Contemporary : Art? Hegel's Ignored Contemporary
Art? Fransisco de Goya : Art? Fransisco de Goya 1764 – 1828
Spanish Enlightenment
Colossus
De Goya : De Goya 3d of May
Velazquez & De Goya : Velazquez & De Goya Art can be reflexive, not 'presentational'
Art can be about the finite / non-absolute
Romantic Art : Romantic Art Hegel:
Presents the Absolute
Is not Reflexive Velazquez
Is reflexive
Goya
Presents the non-Absolute
Post-Hegelian Art : Post-Hegelian Art Social Realism
1830s
Post-hegelian Art : Post-hegelian Art Cezanne
Breaking up the visual world into colors and shapes
Impressionism : Impressionism The visual experience in itself
Claude Monet: Sunrise
Impressionism : Impressionism Seurat
Pointillisme
Theory of perception
Expressionism : Expressionism Edvard Much – The Scream
Inner finite reality reveals the world
Abstract Modern Art: Kandinsky : Abstract Modern Art: Kandinsky
Kandinsky: the Spiritual in Art : Kandinsky: the Spiritual in Art The Spiritual is the limitation of the infinite color into a finite shape.
The colors and shapes express themselves
Merleau-Ponty: Revealing the body-world interaction
Salvador Dali : Salvador Dali Using the experience of the schizofrenic to view the world: time
Slide 35 :
Surrealism : Surrealism The abnormal experience shows us the world
Expressing the dreamworld is revealing the unknown
WHAT NEXT?
Slide 37 :
Andy Warhol: the end of (modern) Art : Andy Warhol: the end of (modern) Art Everyone can be an artist
Everything can be a work of Art
Art has no project
The context defines what is Art
Slide 39 :
Contemporary Art : Contemporary Art Reflective
Autonomous
Presents the Finite as such = new absolute
Competes with other forms of imagery
Benoit Hermans : Benoit Hermans Citysaint
New York:
Galerie D'Eendt
Slide 42 : The Composer
Conspiracy of Silence : Conspiracy of Silence
Slide 44 :
Slide 45 : Hegel and Hermans
Hegel and Modern Art : Hegel and Modern Art Summary
Art presents the Absolute
Philosophy does that now: Art is obsolete
HOWEVER
Art already was reflective; presenting the Finite
Social realism, impressionism, expressionism, abstract Art, Surrealism, pop-Art and Benoit Hermans show that....
Conclusion: : Conclusion: Art in our time has in many ways taken over the opublic function of philsophyby allowing us to reflect on the 'absolute' nature of our finitude.
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