The Making: Celibate dilletante talks about Painting

Leon Basista Alberti, portrait

searchable Web Gallery of Art website--find images of art from 1100-1850:
http://www.wga.hu/

Link to "Women in Art" by Philip Scott Johnson. 500 years of Female Portraits in Western Art History:
http://videos.emule.com/play/women-in-art-(nUDIoN-_Hxs

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aesthetic (source: Online Etymology Dictionary)
1798, from Ger. ästhetisch or Fr. esthétique, both from Gk. aisthetikos "sensitive," from aisthanesthai "to perceive, to feel," from PIE *awis-dh-yo-, from base *au- "to perceive." Popularized in Eng. by translation of Immanuel Kant, and used originally in the classically correct sense "the science which treats of the conditions of sensuous perception." Kant had tried to correct the term after Baumgarten had taken it in Ger. to mean "criticism of taste" (1750s), but Baumgarten's sense attained popularity in Eng. c.1830s (despite scholarly resistance) and removed the word from any philosophical base. Walter Pater used it (1868) to describe the late 19c. movement that advocated "art for art's sake," which further blurred the sense. Aesthete first recorded 1881.

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Thursday, January 17, 2008

Celibate dilletante talks about Painting

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