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Art allows us to forget about the suffering of the world.
Art allows us to forget about the suffering of the world.
Aesthetic experience comes in two main varieties for Schopenhauer, the beautiful and the sublime, and can be had through perception of both nature and art.
Although 18th century aesthetics also included the “picturesque,” this drops out as a separate category in both Kant and Schopenhauer’s aesthetic theories.
Nearly all human beings, he holds, are capable of aesthetic experience, otherwise they would be “absolutely insensitive to beauty and sublimity—in fact these words would be meaningless for them” (WWR I, 218).
The World of Will and Representation
Schopenhauer’s metaphysics and philosophy of nature led him to the doctrine of pessimism: the view that sentient beings, with few exceptions, are bound to strive and suffer greatly, all without any ultimate purpose or justification and thus life is not really worth living.
Romanticism indulged the artist’s emotions and imagination, allowing these feelings and ideas to permeate the viewer. Romanticism was interpreted differently by various Romantics regarding their music, literature, and visual art. Artists portrayed scenes of love, beauty, suspense, horror, anger, and adoration that were aimed to provide an escape from reality.
At the end of the 18th century and well into the 19th, Romanticism quickly spread throughout Europe and the United States to challenge the rational ideal held so tightly during the Enlightenment. The artists emphasized that sense and emotions - not simply reason and order - were equally important means of understanding and experiencing the world. Romanticism celebrated the individual imagination and intuition in the enduring search for individual rights and liberty. Its ideals of the creative, subjective powers of the artist fueled avant-garde movements well into the 20th century. ............
Contemplate the word 'Romanticism'. How is the painting ,'Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog' Romantic in nature?
How does this work relate to the Aesthetic principles outline by Schopenhauer?
Do you think art was a reflection of thought of the time or art influenced thinking?
Why do you think people seek beauty?
Sublime
Beautiful
Stunning
Inspire
Uplifting
Amazement
Wonder
Admiration
Reverence
Veneration
Transfix
Fascinate
Escapism
Diversion
Look at the group of words provided. How do these words connect to the understanding of Schopenhauer's aesthetic thinking?
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