aesthetics

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What do you think about pictorial art? What is it actually FOR?

John Welford @indexer (4852) • Leicester, England 29 Oct 18

This is a question that has plagued artists and philosophers of art for centuries! Oscar Wilde took the line that "All art is quite useless", which sounds more dismissive than it actually is - Wilde believed that art had a...

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Art Study Jan Van Eyck The Arnolfini Portrait

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 27 Sep 18

1434 Renaissance masterpiece, in oil on oak panelling. A portrait by the early Dutch Master Van Eyck of the Bruges based aristocratic Giovanni Di Nicoli Arnolfini and his pregnant wife, in their own house. The paint is layered...

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Art Review Renoir Parisian Women Dressed As Algerians

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 21 Mar 18

1872 Oil on canvas. Renoir’s Parisian Women Dressed as Algerians also known as The Harem,is a clever, corrupting pastiche of Delacroix’s famous paintings of women in a genuine Algerian harem, especially his 1834 oil on canvas...

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What do you find pretty?

The Horse @TheHorse (238317) • Walnut Creek, California 4 Feb 17

There are certain things that make me just sit and look. A child sleeping. Someone giving me that "I love you" look. Pine trees swaying against a blue sky. The inside of a Gothic church. And of course, there are my more obscure...

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The Manchester Armchair Philosophers ask What Is The Relationship Between Art and Ethics?

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 13 Jun 16

Tuesday 19th May 2015 – The Royal Oak Pub, Chorlton, Manchester. Our host, Mary Crumpton asked whether art and morality should go hand in hand. Should movies carry a moral message? Should paintings and sculpture make us think...

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Vasari - Lives Of The Artists – Authors Preface

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 8 Apr 16

Before getting to his first Renaissance artist biography, Vasari writes in further depth on art in general. He talks of Christian religion’s conflict with art where life-like statues and portraits of religious scenes risked...

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Book Review - Vasari The Lives Of The Artists – Introduction

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 6 Apr 16

We tend to think of great art as eternal and immortal, but at the height of the Renaissance (a label he created), art-scholar Vasari lamented that many artists were already being forgotten and many great paintings, sculptures and...

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Real Life Barbie

Dancia Susilo @DanciaKS (187) 14 Jan 16

I'm sure many of you have heard about real life Barbies like Anastasia Shpagina and Valarie Lukyanova. I'm curious to know your thoughts on them. I saw an ad with Anastasia on them so it just got me thinking. I actually love her...

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Painting Study - Brueghel - The Triumph Of Death

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 7 Jan 16

1562-3 A brutal horrific, uncompromising study of Death's triumph over humanity and life in a grim Apocalyptic vision. An army of skeletal warriors swarm over the people of a medieval town, slaughtering everyone in sight,...

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Art For Arthurs Sake

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 10 Dec 15

It is quite obvious to me that my art skills are not comparable to those of Leonardo Da Vinci. Dan Brown is unlikely to present the World with a novel called The Chappell Code. They will not name a Mutant Ninja Turtle Arthur in my...

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Art study – Jacques Louis David – The Death Of Marat

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 17 Oct 15

A painting created in 1773, and started just hours after the unusual assassination of Marat, a leading figure in the French Revolution, and an advocate of the Reign Of Terror that sent thousands of citizens to the guillotines....

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Art Study – Escher – Drawing Hands

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 13 Sep 15

Created in 1948 this is one of Escher’s most bizarre impossible fantasy images and a little creepy too. Two disembodied male human hands are seen drawing themselves to life on a sheet of canvas, becoming more lifelike and less...

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I want to share a link to a site for handcrafted items

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169479) • United States 28 Apr 13

This is not a referral or sales link, but is a post to share a beautiful workshop with you. It is a retail shop in my hometown that sells the items made by the clients of the agency Disability Supports of the Great Plains. The...

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Enlivening Living Rooms

sukumar794 @sukumar794 (5040) • Thiruvananthapuram, India 8 Jun 12

Every room in a house has its own tale to tell. Home decor inevitably demands arranging things according to the space in quite an aesthetic manner. The selection of furniture,wall hangings, frills and window curtains all should be...

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do you think that fat is beautiful?

werdan88 @werdan88 (272) • Philippines 6 Nov 09

There is a connotation that sexy, fair-skinned people are beautiful? However, do you think that fat people are actually beautiful?

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Decline in the importance of urban aesthetics.

alokn99 @alokn99 (5717) • India 24 Aug 08

I do agree that aesthetics is a philosopical notion of beauty and is subject to personal interpretation. At the same time I do strongly get the impression that there is a decline in the importance or value given to...

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Would you ever take in or adopt an ugly or misformed dog?

Amy @artemis432 (7474) • Abernathy, Texas 15 May 08

Would you ever adopt a dog most would think of as ugly? What about one with only three legs? Let's assume here the personalities is sweet and the dog trained or highly trainble...

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what kind of pen is best for handwriting aesthetics?

rajforsure @rajforsure (38) • India 8 Mar 08

Ball point pens are the fastest but aesthetics suffer, fountain pens are slow and clumsy but steady, pilots are not for all kinds of paper. I wonder if I'll find the right pen ever?

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Anyone here had a deviated septum corrected?

Amy @artemis432 (7474) • Abernathy, Texas 30 Oct 07

I woke up this morning with a killer sinus headache. This always gets me thinking of the surgery that I decided to forgo years ago although my insurance covers it. I went through all the hoops - saw an ear nose and throat doctor,...

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Why do women like crafting so much?

juline @juline (77) • Singapore 18 Jun 07

...my sister asks! :)

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