Criticism after Romanticism: 2. Art for Art's Sake. 3. Impressionism and Subjectivism

Art for Art's Sake?

Artists, alongside scientists and entrepreneurs, are role models for innovation in our societies. Not surprisingly, arts education is commonly said to be a means of developing skills considered as critical for innovation: critical and creative thinking, motivation, self-confidence, and ability to communicate and cooperate effectively, but also skills in non-arts academic subjects such as mathem...

Critique and a Science for the Sake of Art: Fractals and the Visual Arts

J^ D rawing attention to the Kantian aesthetic that underpins Benoit Mandelbrot's [1] argument for 'an art for the sake of science' does not represent a sufficiently critical engagement of fractal geometry's entry into visual discourse (an entry made largely transparent by the suggestion that art acts as a handmaiden to science). Merely pointing to the extent of this aesthetic debt leaves the n...

The Art of Criticism? Criticism as Art!

Art and Science. Part 2. Science for Art's Sake

Concluding a two-part discussion on comections between the worlds of art and science, this essay examines ways in which science and technology have been applied in art. Computergraphics,holography,andorbiting“spaceart” arediscussed.Alsoconsideredare scientifictechniquesusedto study, restore, and conserve art objects. This essay touches onty briefly on a few of the aspects and issues involved in...

Arts and Cognition: Performance, Criticism and Aesthetics