Matakuliah : R0434/Aesthetics
Tahun
: 2007
Aesthetics and the philosophy of art
Pertemuan 5
What counts as ‘art’ ?
Bina Nusantara
Artist, philosophers, anthropologist,
psychologist and programmers all use the
notion of art in their respective field, and give
it operational definitions that are not very
similar to each other.
Bina Nusantara
The main recent sense of the
word ‘art’ is roughly
abbreviation for creative
art or ‘fine art’
Here we mean that skill is being used to express the artist
creativity, or to engage the audience’s aesthetic
sensibilities, or to draw the audience towards consideration
of the ‘finer’ things.
Bina Nusantara
Fine Art
Van Gogh
Bina Nusantara
Often, if the skill is being used in a lowbrow or
practical way, people will consider it a ‘craft’ instead
of art, yet many thinkers have defended practical
and lowbrow forms as being as much art as the more
lofty forms.
Bina Nusantara
Craft
Bina Nusantara
Art or Craft ?
Bina Nusantara