Monday, February 24, 2014

Abstraction and Empathy, Worringer, Notes

Life is organic existence and aesthetic enjoyment applied by the two concepts of naturalism and style. Thus, art is objectified enjoyment.

Thus, "a great deal of mischief is wrought with the group of letters that spell 'art'." (30)  Art is innate and it is taken for granted. Empathy and style are the primary factors in the process that gives birth to art.  There are many cross-sections which have to be combined before we can arrive at the notion of what created human artistic creativity.

We seek rest from unclarity, and the more highly evolved we are the greater pains we experience. Space is the enemy of the abstract.

Aesthetic enjoyment is self-enjoyment. This is art, and art is created by three factors: utilitarian purpose, raw material, and techniques. Art is the history of ability, and activity is life.

Art is used to 'satisfy a deep psychic need',  created out of impulse and imitation of that need.

Space is the enemy, and man freed himself from the fear of extended space by habituation and reflection (16).  We develop to push back our fear of being lost in the universe.

There is vast confusion of the world universe, and we try to individualize and center ourselves in it.

The ego is the greatest work of art.

"Can two aesthetic experiences exist within the same coexist within the same artwork?'

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