Denz ＆ Alulu

Aesthetics

Paintings in Industrial Revolution:mass production took over so many aspects of our daily life.

Paintings in Industrial Revolution:mass production took over so many aspects of our daily life.

Victorian Arts*Art should serve a moral purpose by

representing and reinforcing social values.

Victorian Arts*Art should serve a moral purpose by

representing and reinforcing social values.

Aesthetic Movement• the self-determined value

of art

• to create and celebrate art solely for the pleasure

• The mixture of visual qualities of one piece

*confusion is its attraction

• everyone has the equal right to enjoy the pleasure of art and has the opportunity to decide his personal taste

Aesthetic Movement :Confusion is its Attraction

To borrow foreign images and styles regardless of their historical or geographical background

Aesthetic Movement :Confusion is its Attraction

William Morris

Strawberry Thief Chintz

* Confusion creates a pleasurable visual stimulus

* The Japanese influence became the strongest and best known, a cult for Japan at that time emerged accordingly.

William Morris* March 24, 1834 – October 3, 1896

If I were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for; I should answer; A beautiful House.

*the importance of beauty in everyday life.

－ Art for Art’s Sake

Oscar Wilde

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

[All art is useless.]

。美學自始至終 pursue pleasure in the senses

Postmodern Aesthetics*

只注重藝術品是否對感官造成衝擊力，不注重藝術品背後複雜的理論性概念。

Image seeks to explain itself – Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance

Image seeks to explain itself – Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance

Image seeks to explain itself – Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance

Theory from Lyotard The attempt to free/decolonize the unconscious from the conscious

Depends on whether one feels

a “pleasure in beauty”

美與醜的標準如何評斷？

Kantian pleasure in beauty –

disinterested,

demands a universal validity.

一種評斷美醜的方法：

專制地為美學擬定一階級制度， follow the Kantian theory which regards “beauty” as a property of things, not an abstract characteristic.

Aesthetics Now ：the sublime is to combine beauty with ugliness, to find pleasure in the unpresentable. (South Park)

Aesthetics Now ：the sublime is to combine beauty with ugliness, to find pleasure in the unpresentable. (South Park)

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美學在台灣 高科技美學將 3C 產品美化為裝飾品

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喂 ? 我是黑金剛啦 :p

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像維多利亞時期重室內設計

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美學在台灣 食品 – 吃完馬上就要丟的 也要精心設計包裝

Familyamily

Countless meticulous designs are only directing to products of one single practical use.

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