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Date: 11-28-2023
FORMALISM EXPRESSIONISM
FORMALISM
• View art independently of its context, • View art with externalized emotional state
Fundamental concepts
function, and content. that constitute the • There must be an artist, an audience, and
• Respond to formal elements and aesthetic core of aesthetics and the emotion they share.
effects. art.
• Artwork should be seen in its basic form and • Requires the artist to experience some
emotional state to stimulate the same
shapes.
kind of emotion in the audience.
• Deliberate concentration on formal
qualities. Art is beautiful • Subjective and Individualized
Privileging aesthetic
response as mediated Evokes emotional effect
through sight alone. to the audience.
AESTHETIC HEDONISM