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Revision as of 19:11, July 9, 2008
Aesthetics is the philosophical study of the nature and experience of art and beauty.
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Aesthetics and the Golden Ratio
Greek scholars believed that the Golden Ratio (also called divine proportion) is the key to beauty. Artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Salvador Dali often incorporate the Golden Ratio in their drawings.
Definition of "art"
Art has been defined in the field of aesthetics in various ways. Some adhere to a rigid definition of "art", such as paintings, sculpture and other traditional genres, while others believe that art should not be strictly defined, and thus believe that anything progressive may be labeled as such.
Architecture
Aesthetics is an important part of architecture. A poll co-sponsored by an architectural society revealed the following public ranking of favorites, with the name of the architect in parentheses:[1]
- Empire State Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon)
- The White House (James Hoban)
- Washington National Cathedral (George Bodley and Henry Vaughan)
- Jefferson Memorial (John Russell Pope)
- Golden Gate Bridge (Irving F. Morrow and Gertrude C. Morrow)
- U.S. Capitol (William Thornton, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Charles Bulfinch, Thomas U. Walter, Montgomery C. Meigs)
- Lincoln Memorial (Henry Bacon)
- Biltmore Estate/Vanderbilt Mansion (Richard Morris Hunt)
- Chrysler Building (William Van Alen)
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Maya Lin with Cooper-Lecky Partnership)
- St. Patrick's Cathedral[2] (James Renwick)
See also
- Plotinus
- Music
- The Renaissance
- Sistine Chapel
- Spanish Golden Age
- Irish Dance
- Sculpture
- Master of Arts
- Painting Masterpieces
- The beauty industry in America
- World treasures
External links
- National Arts Education
- The Arts U. S. Life, Culture and History.
- Academic Art Artcyclopedia.
- "Talk to your daughter before the beauty industry does" - video exposing the pressure on girls and women to conform to an (impossible?) ideal of beauty