Throughout the semester, I've had trouble trying to differentiate between all of the Philosophers we have studied. To help me, I pretty much made a list and summarized some of the art philosophers as best as possible.
Plato- He believed that the goal of art is to imitate the everyday reality.
Aristotle- Art is a way of representing. (He referred most of his ideas to poetry) "emphasis on the possible"
David Hume- Art is based on one's taste. Only qualified people can judge what art is.
Tolstoy- "Through the use of such devices as color, sound and movement, art communicates to its audience a feeling or emotion that the artist has previously experienced." He raises the question of "What is Art?" and in his definition, he says that art is communication, pleasure, statement and activity.
Freud- Art is expressing feelings, thoughts, emotions and dreams that aren't acceptable to society, yet making it pleasurable for viewers to see.
Collingwood- He believes that it is good to express your feelings and that you have to use your imagination in order to create art.
John Dewey- "art should not be conceived as a radically distinct aspect of human life."
"art results when the desire to create an object whose perceptible properties will yield immediate satisfaction controls the process of its production."
Martin Heidegger- Defines art as truth
John Dewey- People tend to ignore nature and not consider it as art (aesthetic emotion/satisfaction). The whole point of science is art.
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