Environmental Art: Earth Body Art / Ana Mendieta
Review Ideas About Art 1 Based on Plato's philosophical reflection on the arts and beauty, the artist copies the experienced object , or uses it as a model for his work. For the philosopher, on the other hand, beauty resides in the idea and not in sensible things. 2 For Aristotle beauty is contained in symmetry, which he considers the symbol of perfection, linked to the classic concept of beauty: harmony, order and proportion. 3 Baumgarten, reaffirmed that the essence of beauty could not occur without the discovery of aesthetic sensible pleasure. The beautiful and the aesthetic are not alien to the sensitive. What comprises the artistic is given through sensibility . 4 Baumgarten proposes aesthetics as a science of sensible knowledge, which deals with beauty. "The end of aesthetics is the perfection of sensible knowledge as such and this is beauty." 5 Kant is interested in art for its connection with beauty, not for art itself. Beauty, accordin...