Classical and Renaissance Notions of Visual BeautyWestern and Non-Western Notions of the Ideal ●Images: (left) Michelangelo’s David, 1500-1501 and (right) Idealized Male Figure from Mali, 15th-20th c.European Modernism and Non-Western Art, late 19th-early 20th c. ●African , Asian, and Polynesian art inspire European artists such as Picasso, Gauguin, and Matisse to question the role of beauty in art—its necessity, form, and purpose. Images below: (left) Picasso, Girl with a Mandolin and (right) Mbuya Sickness MaskEuropean Modernism and Non-Western Art II ●Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1906-1907 (right) combined stylistic features of non-Western art with a Western sensibility.Beyond Picasso and an “Anti-aesthetic” in 20th c. Art— ●The Transformation of “Classical” Beauty in Western Culture: From the Beauty of the Body to the Beauty of the Machine ● The Machine Aesthetic emerges in early 20th c. Europe and America Image on the right: Lewis Hine’s Powerhouse Mechanic, 1925Precisionism, or the Machine Aesthetic, in 20th c. American Art Images: (left) Charles Sheeler’s Wheels (photograph), 1939 and (right) Sheeler’s River Rouge Plant (Ford Motor Co.), 1932Machine Aesthetic in America II Images: Charles Sheeler’s Steam Turbine, 1936 and Charles Demuth’s My Egypt, 1932Georgia O’Keeffe as Precisionist Images: O’Keeffe, The Radiator Building and O’Keeffe, Light LilyO’Keeffe, Nature, and Beauty (Aesthetic Abstraction) Images: O’Keeffe, Music—Pink and Blue and O’Keeffe, Cow’s Skull with CameliaRussian Suprematism, 1915-1917 (Malevich, El Lissitzky, and Popova) The Beauty of Abstraction and GeometryPiet Mondrian and Pure Abstraction, 1930s and 1940s (Seeking universals, including a universal beauty, in abstraction) Images: Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie, 1942-44 and Mondrian’s CompositionWassily Kandinsky and the Beauty of Abstraction, 1910s to 1930s (Seeking universals, including a universal beauty, in abstraction)Modernist Architecture—The Marriage of the Machine Aesthetic and the Beauty of Abstraction Building: Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoy, France, 1928-30Modernist Architecture (II) Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoy (interior) and the Centre Le Corbusier, SwitzerlandChristian Philosophy and Twentieth-Century Art (Kaethe Kollwitz) ●An anti-aesthetic in the service of social reform Images: Kollwitz’s Mother with Dead Child, 1903 and Kollwitz’s PovertyKollwitz and The Weavers’ Rebellion Series 1890s—1900sKollwitz and Non-Western Art Models Images: Kollwitz’s The Parents (grieving), woodcut and Sculpture from TongaThe Value of Art for Christian Philosophers Today ●The Photographs of Sebastiao Salgado in the Service of Social Reform TodayClassical and Renaissance Notions of Visual BeautyWestern and Non-Western Notions of the Ideal●Images: (left) Michelangelo’s David, 1500-1501 and (right) Idealized Male Figure from Mali, 15th-20th c.European Modernism and Non-Western Art, late 19th-early 20th c. ●African , Asian, and Polynesian art inspire European artists such as Picasso, Gauguin, and Matisse to question the role of beauty in art—its necessity, form, and purpose.Images below: (left) Picasso, Girl with a Mandolin and (right) Mbuya Sickness MaskEuropean Modernism and Non-Western Art II●Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1906-1907 (right) combined stylistic features of non-Western art with a Western sensibility.Beyond Picasso and an “Anti-aesthetic” in 20th c. Art— ●The Transformation of “Classical” Beauty in Western Culture: From the Beauty of the Body to the Beauty of the Machine ● The Machine Aesthetic emerges in early 20th c. Europe and AmericaImage on the right: Lewis Hine’s Powerhouse Mechanic, 1925Precisionism, or the Machine Aesthetic, in 20th c. American Art Images: (left) Charles Sheeler’s Wheels (photograph), 1939 and (right) Sheeler’s River Rouge Plant (Ford Motor Co.), 1932Machine Aesthetic in America II Images: Charles Sheeler’s Steam Turbine, 1936 and Charles Demuth’s My Egypt, 1932Georgia O’Keeffe as PrecisionistImages: O’Keeffe, The Radiator Building and O’Keeffe, Light LilyO’Keeffe, Nature, and Beauty (Aesthetic Abstraction)Images: O’Keeffe, Music—Pink and Blue and O’Keeffe, Cow’s Skull with CameliaRussian Suprematism, 1915-1917 (Malevich, El Lissitzky, and Popova)The Beauty of Abstraction and GeometryPiet Mondrian and Pure Abstraction, 1930s and 1940s(Seeking universals, including a universal beauty, in abstraction)Images: Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie, 1942-44 and Mondrian’s CompositionWassily Kandinsky and the Beauty of Abstraction, 1910s to 1930s (Seeking universals, including a universal beauty, in abstraction)Modernist Architecture—The Marriage of the Machine Aesthetic and the Beauty of AbstractionBuilding: Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoy, France, 1928-30Modernist Architecture (II)Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoy (interior) and the Centre Le Corbusier, SwitzerlandChristian Philosophy and Twentieth-Century Art (Kaethe Kollwitz)●An anti-aesthetic in the service of social reformImages: Kollwitz’s Mother with Dead Child, 1903 and Kollwitz’s PovertyKollwitz and The Weavers’ Rebellion Series 1890s—1900sKollwitz and Non-Western Art ModelsImages: Kollwitz’s The Parents (grieving), woodcut and Sculpture from TongaThe Value of Art for Christian Philosophers Today●The Photographs of Sebastiao Salgado in the Service of Social Reform