Essays about: "Philosophy of Painting"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words Philosophy of Painting.

  1. 1. Chimeric Mimicry : Reflection and Animality in Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy of Nature

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Filosofi

    Author : Oscar Amcoff; [2023]
    Keywords : animal-studies; human-animal relation; merleau-ponty; merleau-ponty nature; chimera; chimerical; animal reflection; reflection of nature; human-animal divide; carnologocentrism; animal philosophy; animal phenomenology; phenomenology of nature; merleau-ponty and the animal; ineinander; animal embodiment;

    Abstract : In this paper, I attempt to understand how Merleau-Ponty views the relation between nature and reflection, as well as the meaning behind the terms “human” and “animal” and the relations between them. I approach this by outlining the transition from Merleau-Ponty’s early philosophy (SB, PP) to his late philosophy (N, VI). READ MORE

  3. 2. What we convey in what we don't show : The philosophy of Yugen - can unclarity be valuable in art?

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Filosofiska institutionen

    Author : Alex Lundgren; [2022]
    Keywords : aesthetics; philosophy; art; humanities; Japanese aesthetics; yugen; painting; film; studio ghibli; architecture;

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  4. 3. The Sublime as an Aesthetic Experience of Art : The Aesthetic Experience of Mark Rothko's Abstract Paintings

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Filosofiska institutionen

    Author : Vendela Haviland; [2022]
    Keywords : Mark Rothko; Aesthetics; Philosophy of Art; Sublime; Kant; Kantian Sublime; Philosophy of Painting; Art and the Sublime; Aesthetic Experience of Art; Abstract Painting; Abstract Expressionism; Philosophy of Abstract Art; Aesthetic Experience of Abstract Art; Mark Rothko; Abstrakt konst; estetisk upplevelse; sublim; Kant;

    Abstract : The following work investigates the nature of the aesthetic experience of the abstract expressionist paintings of Mark Rothko. I suggest that the aesthetic experience in relation to his paintings best is understood in terms of the sublime. READ MORE

  5. 4. Gardens of Compost

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : Anton Lindström; [2020]
    Keywords : anthropocene; storytelling; deleuze; haraway; critical; theory; environmentalism; rhizome; SF; string figures; care; painting; feminism; dystopia; apocalypse;

    Abstract : An interrogation of architecture's prevailing myths, and a practice for how to live and die well as an architect in the Anthropocene epoch.  It is an effort to combine joyful representation and speculation (because architecture is both too serious and not nearly serious enough), with philosophy, for still possible pasts, presents and futures. READ MORE

  6. 5. The panel painting ’’The Lamentation of Christ’’ from Norum church

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvård

    Author : Polyxeni Papadopoulou; [2011-02-03]
    Keywords : panel painting; Renaissance; Lucas Cranach the Elder; provenance; attribution;

    Abstract : This thesis takes the challenge to investigate a series of attribution hypotheses concerning a panel painting of unknown master, possessed by the Norum church in Stenungsund (Västra Götaland county) in Sweden. The painting depicts the well-known theme of religious character; The Lamentation of Christ, and it possesses Northern Renaissance painting qualities (16th-17th century). READ MORE