1. http://simona-petrescu.nameWHAT IS ART? What is beauty?

2. Is beauty out there? 3. Is beauty out there?Is art beauty?Or is it in the eye of the beholder? 4. Photo by: Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864-1946). Fountain, photograph of sculpture by Marcel Duchamp, 1917. 5. Or is it in the eye of the beholder?Is beauty out there? What is art?Is art beauty?Or is it intentionality? 6. WHAT IS ART? Catharsis MimesisIntentionalityFormPerform ance 7. I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15535#sthash.zUl knmRb.dpufI have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast. Forgive me; they were delicious, so sweet and so cold.William Carlos Williams 8. IntentionalityMimesisForm CatharsisPerform ance Tolstoy: Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that others are infected by these feelings and also experience them. 9. Art vs. Its realisation (sometimes unique)WHAT IS ART? QUESTIONS Is the score for Beethovens 7th Symphony a work Lisa a work of art?Art without audience? of Whose a art? Is catharsis?photo of Mona Would Mona Lisa be a work of art on the Moon? Is Mona Lisa beautiful? Is the Scream beautiful? If not, is it art? If yes, in what way? Is art taste? Education enables us to keep our taste apart from recognizing artistic quality 10. OUR PERCEPTION OF BEAUTY, OR OF ARTISTIC VALUE FOR THAT MATTER, IS CONDITIONED BY: Culture Social context Exposure / experience Education, including information (understanding) 11. Read more here:SOMEONE FAMOUS SAIDHe who has ears, let him hear. (Matthew 13.9)http://www.scoop.it/t/artand-beauty-by-simonaThe Rose and Its Name This is petrescu why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing theydo not hear, nor do they understand. http://simonaIndeed, in their case the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says: You will indeed hear but petrescu.name never understand, and you will indeed see but never perceive. For this peoples heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them. But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear. (Matthew 13.13-13.16)Photos kindly supplied by Sorin Onisor. You can admire his from Schubert The phenomenal music here camephotographic art here: Serenade - and Beethoven the 7th Symphony. www.sorinonisor.ro https://www.facebook.com/sorinonisor?fref=ts