Sunday, March 20, 2011

Suprematism and Aestheticism

In Edward Jone's painting "The Beguiling of Merlin" he uses Aestheticism in it. The painting is both realistic and detailed. An example that shows that Edward used details is how you can see how realistic and detailed the flowers are in the background and also the pages in the book and how clearly the pages are defined. Unlike Kasimir Malevich's painting where Kasimir used simple shapes and shading, while Edward Jone's picture is very amazing and the shading in the picture actually makes it look as if it is a picture that was taken by a camera instead of something that a artist painted.
Suprematism was an art that focused on the fundamental geometric forms which originated in Russia in the years of 1915-1916. While Aestheticism is 19th century European design style that emphasized aesthetic values. Suprematism is what one artist decided to do to show that there are people who aren't as lucky as the upper-class Victorians. Suprematism is a chain reaction from Aesthetiscm. Aesthetiscim shows the luxuries of the society of the upper-class Victorians. Aestheticism is detailed and very beautiful just as the upper-class Victorians have enough money to buy luxuries that are detailed and make themselves very beautiful, don't forget that the items themselves are also beautiful themselves! Aestheticism shows luxuries, but what morals are shown in it? Nothing. When you see Suprematism paintings such as Kasimir Malevich's painting you can see that life wasn't easy for them, but you see that they keep working and doing it only because that's their life. Suprematism can show what most of the people before and even now have to go through. How many people don't have high luxury? MANY. However, how many people have high luxury? Not very much compared to those who don't. I think during the time period in which these paintings were done, Aesthetiscim was not as popular as the Suprematism paintings only because there were more people who could understand the Suprematism paintings.

5 comments:

  1. Wow, overall I think you did a really good job. I liked the line where you said "...it looks as if it is a picture taken by a camera instead of something that an artist painted." Down near the bottom I think you meant Suprematist style art can show what people are going through and not Aestheticism, but if not I would have to disagree. I also disagree with you last statement because I think that more people would be able to see the beauty in the art shown by Aestheticism, thus making it more popular, and that less people would be able to understand the message or story that Suprematist style art strives to tell, thus making it less popular.

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  2. Good job! Your attention to the details of each paintion was great. However, I disagree with you when you said that Aestheticism does not show morals. I think that even if some art is beautiful it doesn't necessarily mean that it doesn't have a moral or a point beyond the facade of "beauty". there may be more deapth to the artwork than just diplaying beauty. Overall I think you did a really good job.

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  3. catty i love your background :) i also love how much detail u put into your comparisons and contrasts. i like how you said the picture looked like it was taken by a camera. You ad a lot of thought and commentary into your writing which makes it easier to follow and more fun to read because we know your opinion. good job!

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  4. nice details, way to personalize it. Think outside the box a little bit more :) I like Zac Efron more than you.

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