Exam Review 10 26 2011 3 Definitions of Art 3 Natures of Form Process of becoming Spirit to matter What is truth Truth is very obscure Truth by nature is very obscure and it contributes to the secret life and should be thought it in relationship to it The secret life has to do with the right brain No speaking wordless Left is the speaking brain Right side intuition Intuitive is the nature where art is experienced Various words by nature of the way we use the words we expect something different Understand put together wrongly Element of humility To stand under Part of obscurity of truth Often contemporary art intuitive art Unable to understand analytically we understand intuitively When we think about contemporary art there is resistance to anything we cannot explain right away Resist distraction and inertia are things we use to avoid reality Resistance is used to refuse to accept the inexplicable Contemporary art is addressed by intuition Intellect read in between Art and culture Actually art forms culture Culture maintains art Being simply that which is Not related to time and space Existence is that which is also in time and space Sapiens vs sapiensa cross meanings in latin Show relationship of things Sapeinsa wisdom Sapiens tasting We are defined as homo sapiens We have a taste for what we know Symbolic relationship o Wisdom was developing taste as a form of virtue To the highest form of knowing truth Sapiens savoring issue thing Element of wisdom allows us to contemplate issues To become one with a Certain words thing form form which makes the thing that the thing which is Thing is basic It is the most close like thing in itself UNITY Thing can mean anything that is in time and space is the way we use it Maritain capitalized the word thing because of relationship to being o gives a divine connotation When it is the least proper noun all inclusive Thing gives a name to truth of it Elevated intellectual characteristic Always employs intellect mindful Work versus labor Work is object of art Labor Mindless Human kind cannot bear reality Humans need to to bear reality Humor Forgiveness We are going to show a lack of wisdom We need humor to grasp that we are fools and forgiveness to understand we make mistakes Reality is fleeting how we experience reality We experience not in linear direction Reality is experienced in hints and glimpses We need capacity to grasp a hint and glimpse to experience reality Virtues habits that the intellect develops to perfect itself The intellectual virtues o Wisdom o Prudence that which elevates truth to a virtue Sapiensa when truth goes into human action We need prudence in human action Uses will Not just intellectual willful You have to want to care about others o Rules o Choice of your material has to fit the job to be made knowing how it must be done One of four components of the mind 1 Intellect top form Because it guides truth and knowing 2 Memory storing intellect 3 Imagination that which we imagine and project beyond the form of 4 Will that which wants conserves It saves you Keeps you from doing reality foolish things Inspires you Active realm operative realm comes in 1 order the practical order Two spheres of that order prudence and of art Art concerns truly the intellect Prudence is concerned with the will Both virtues of the practical intellect o One responds to the rules of art o One responds to the will Habits are acquired conditions that perfect something in the line of itself indeed conditions that perfect in itself How does that need our perfect condition Health strength beauty virtue of body Love virtue of moral and of will Have to want to love to love Virtues are perfected virtues Habits to the optimum efficiency and perfection When we went into form how pascal came up with space between o That which is this before to what it becomes o Neither original nor the final product o Becoming is the nature of the space between o Still point of the turning point the last stroke right before it is done o Space between and still point there is element of becoming that comes forward and defines creative moment Wood is before the fact of space Then it becomes a final sculpture It has changed o First saw it was good then rested Binary opposites 1 side is always better than the other 1 Unity wholeness being 2 Duality existential reality in time and space a In time and space it still relates to being There is always a striving to pull it to one 3 Universe system of planets Cosmos order of it nature of the way it is produced Cosmic harmonies we will follow We will create cosmic harmonies because we are apart of nature and we do what nature does The intellect has power of knowing truth Art resides as the one that knows truth and how to make it Does not use will virtue of intellect and the will is prudence Art is the most intellectual only goes to truth doesn t want anything We make it because it is the right making Aristotilian position to bring in the operative Plato stayed with the ideal the idea Practical and speculative orders of art Action or operative tie two orders of art together Platonic emphasis on intellect art is virtue of practical intellect Art is the right making of thing to be made Art is the idea of preceeding them platonic plato emphasized Idea and ideal Speculative order knows truth Does not function Practical order put something into work or operation Right making of the thing to be made Making implies skill or technique Art always involved intellect Always being informed by knowing Besides just by hand being able to make it Skill is necessary to accomplish but rises beyond that Poetic gives something emotion with something more than skill Art gives something just the right making That is beyond skill Object of art work of art The work is everything to art Activity of art is the impressing and idea upon nature Sounds more clear We think about the object of art and how we classify art Greek corporal and liberal arts Corporal material the body Liberal nonmaterial in time and space Contemporary functional specified use and ornamented decorated works made for experience Fine arts as objects of contemplations for the good of themselves Simply Act of contemplation is to unite time and space to reach pure being Communication is a spiritual thing Form isn t shape Form is that which makes the thing what it is its what makes us what we are The wisdom of it To reach understandings levels of consciousness Conscious left Subconscious stored