PHL 710 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Plastic Arts
9 Feb 2019
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The ontology of the photographic image - andre bazin. An image is a creation of an ideal of the likeness of the real with its own meaning. Painting has a balance between the symbolic and the real. Camera (for film) allowed for there to be an illusion of a three-dimensional space where things appear as they exist in reality. Aesthetic - expression of spiritual reality where the symbol transcended its model. Psychological - duplication of the outside world. Duplication of the outside world has consumed the plastic arts. Perspective only solved the problem of form, not movement. Realism was forced to continue to search for some way of giving dramatic expression. Misunderstanding between the aesthetic and the psychological causes a quarrel over realism in art. Painting was forced to offer us illusion; photography and cinema, however, satisfy our obsession with realism. Paintings are always subjective, regardless of skill.
