RELS 257 Exam 1 Questions with Correct Answers Graded A+
Plato - Answers 430-347 BCE
Arguments: art is mimesis (imitation) art is techne (skilled craft)
Theory forms: everything in our world is from something imitating something else in the
ideological and perfect world
Critical of tragedy for teaching masses that virtue is not always rewarded. He thinks it will
confuse the masses
Art should be banned
Aristotle - Answers 384-322 BCE
Arguments: tragedy is important because it provides Catharsis, it shows that good people
mistakenly do bad things, it is a form of education, sees tragedy as a form of mimesis. Critical
of the play media
Tolstoy - Answers main function of the artist is to convey emotion
Frued - Answers Express unconscious feelings or desires
Sublimation
John Dewey and Aesthetic Experience - Answers Imaginative
Art must be created lovingly
Means are more important than the end
Art is not utilitarian
Aesthetic experience is
Different from every day
Demarcated in time
Evokes perception
Heightened experience
Religious experience
Art is the best window to another culture
art needs Artist, piece, and consumer
, art is language
Kant - Answers 1724-1804
Purposeness without purpose.
An aesthetic experience is detached.
Art is about form rather than politics or ideas
Calls garden of versai works sublime
Hume - Answers An essential quality for beauty is moral meaning
We judge through good taste (education and experience)
Rely on expert
Berger - Answers Reproductions distort meaning
Removes from context
Eliminates an authentic experience
The events or experiences surrounding the experience impact your interpretation
Mystification: explaining away what would otherwise be self-evident. Overexplaining the
intended meaning.
Analyzes nudes (objectification)
Men act women appear
Spectator is assumed to be male
Memento mori
Remember death...
Aquinas - Answers 1225-1274
Proportion, light, and allegory and how they relate to the gothic cathedral
Claritas: internal brightness and design
Beauty is an essential property of God
Allegory: tells a story
Uses geometry from Pythagoras
Plato - Answers 430-347 BCE
Arguments: art is mimesis (imitation) art is techne (skilled craft)
Theory forms: everything in our world is from something imitating something else in the
ideological and perfect world
Critical of tragedy for teaching masses that virtue is not always rewarded. He thinks it will
confuse the masses
Art should be banned
Aristotle - Answers 384-322 BCE
Arguments: tragedy is important because it provides Catharsis, it shows that good people
mistakenly do bad things, it is a form of education, sees tragedy as a form of mimesis. Critical
of the play media
Tolstoy - Answers main function of the artist is to convey emotion
Frued - Answers Express unconscious feelings or desires
Sublimation
John Dewey and Aesthetic Experience - Answers Imaginative
Art must be created lovingly
Means are more important than the end
Art is not utilitarian
Aesthetic experience is
Different from every day
Demarcated in time
Evokes perception
Heightened experience
Religious experience
Art is the best window to another culture
art needs Artist, piece, and consumer
, art is language
Kant - Answers 1724-1804
Purposeness without purpose.
An aesthetic experience is detached.
Art is about form rather than politics or ideas
Calls garden of versai works sublime
Hume - Answers An essential quality for beauty is moral meaning
We judge through good taste (education and experience)
Rely on expert
Berger - Answers Reproductions distort meaning
Removes from context
Eliminates an authentic experience
The events or experiences surrounding the experience impact your interpretation
Mystification: explaining away what would otherwise be self-evident. Overexplaining the
intended meaning.
Analyzes nudes (objectification)
Men act women appear
Spectator is assumed to be male
Memento mori
Remember death...
Aquinas - Answers 1225-1274
Proportion, light, and allegory and how they relate to the gothic cathedral
Claritas: internal brightness and design
Beauty is an essential property of God
Allegory: tells a story
Uses geometry from Pythagoras
