Thursday, February 24, 2011

Disagreement with Clive Bell

I am almost offended that Bell has neglected to mention music and focuses purely on visual art. I believe that music has an even greater chance of producing aesthetic emotion within its listener. Music also has what Bell calls significant form, however instead of lines and colors music has patterns, dynamics, rhythms, harmonies… in order to create the aesthetic experience. This being said, I cannot agree with Bell’s interpretation. Art is far too diverse to have any similarities. I believe that yes, aesthetic emotion does exist in every work of art which is art, but every aesthetic emotion is different. By this time in our lives most of us have been exposed to the feeling of aesthetic on several occasions. These experiences happened both within the art world and outside of the art world. From personal experience and experiences described to me by others I have found that aesthetic emotion exist in different forms. Each work of art creates a new and incredible experience for the audience. After all, if the same emotion was derived from every piece, wouldn’t there only be one singular work of art known to humanity?

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