Early Nineteenth Century Utopian Philosophy The largest issue of the second half of the nineteenth century was the containment of people. The problem of how to control a growing population in Europe and an alien population in colonized lands occupied the...
CONSTABLE, THE PICTURESQUE, AND ENGLISH ROMANTICISM Less famous and dramatic than his British rival, Joseph Turner, John Constable preferred the humble English countryside of his native Stour Valley. In his humble rural paintings, Constable captured his...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL (1770-1831) Hegel and his Impact on Art and Aesthetics Like any aesthetician, G. W. F. Hegel does not get involved in any particular movement or style or work of art, but, that said, he was very definite about the kind of art where Beauty...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL (1770-1831) ART AND DIALECTICS When one thinks of Hegelian aesthetics, it is most often in relation to the art historians who were impacted by his philosophy and his central concept of the dialectic, or a method of thinking in terms of...
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL (1770-1831) DIALECTICS Within the architectonic model, Kant’s categories were isolated from each other and appeared to impose themselves upon the structure. However useful the categories were in explaining Kant’s theory of human reason,...
DELACROIX THE CONSERVATIVE Part Two The art of Eugène Delacroix was uniquely suited to his time. In an era of imperialism and colonialism through conquest, his exciting art captured the violence of a turbulent age. Like all artists of the Romantic era, Delacroix was...
