Art History

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The paper examines how humankind has always had an inherent need for expression and this need has been fulfilled through various media such as art, literature, poetry and music. It looks at how the field of art has always been a fascinating form of human expression in that it blends aesthetics with the artist's comment or interpretation of culture, history, politics and other aspects of society. It describes how art historians study art from two primary angles: the quality of artistic rendition and the historical reflection of the artist's time. It evaluates the theories of some famous philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle and Kant on how an art historian needs to develop objectivity in interpreting the life and times of the work being studied and the artist's own intended expression.

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"Another epistemological assumption underlying art is that it necessarily has to be concerned with producing something of beauty, as defined by social standards. This is a natural fall out of the underlying theory that knowledge of vision, coded to recognize aesthetics and beauty, is necessary to appreciate art. An opposing philosophy exists wherein great art critics like "John Ruskin, Herbert Read, Morris Collis and Eric Newton would judge art from a wider angle". Any object may be called beautiful feelings which one obtained in the aesthetic contemplation of it are pleasurable feelings? (Ijele Web site). This is in line with Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, where he dealt with aesthetics as if it only has to do with perception."

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