SOC461 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Giorgio Vasari, Filippo Brunelleschi
13 Dec 2016
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Soc 461 – September 20, 2016: Wolfflin and Panofsky: The Autonomy of Art
• Greeks: Natural beauty: Natural mathematical ratios appeal to our sense of beauty. Art should
teach moral values
• Kant: Aesthetic attitude
• Tolstoy: Art is about Expression
• Hegel: Freedom
How can we talk about actual works of art?
• Kats foralis is uiersal: o a of distiguishig artists, ad rests i sujetie faulties.
• Hegels ategories are etreel road.
• Panofsky believed that art was the highest possible human endeavor.
• Wolfflin and Panofsky develop formal analysis that allows us to distinguish diff artists and
periods through specific characteristics and styles of art.
1.What makes a style?
• Wolfflin suggests that different artists, regions, and eras have clearly distinguishable styles.
Well test that seeig three groups of four orks of art, i eah ase oe ork is of a differet
style, artist, or period.
o Pay attention to differences depicting certain features. Use of light, line, clarity, colour,
expressiveness.
o Impressionist style very distinct and clear, but mannerism vs. high renaissance can be
trikier to idetif ithout a traied ee. Its these feautres of stle that Wolffli ad
Panofsky are interested in.
1a. How to sound smart in art galleries
Renaissance: 16th century
• Linear: Clear outlines of limited, defined objects.
• Plane: Squence of layers behind front.
• Closed form: Painting points inwards, may have a strict frame.
• Multiplicity: Harmony of free parts interacting to create unity.
• Absolute clarity: Strong preference for very clear images.
Baroque: 17th century
• Paiterl: Artist ist trig to hide that a paitig is a paitig. Blurred outlies, ergig of
objects in picture.
• Recession:
• Open form:
• Unity:
• Relative clarity:
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