LECTURE 6

Hierarchy of Beauty
BEAUTY

UGLY
 Simonneta
Vespucci in
the Venus
Paintings by
Botticelli
 Picture of
SamburoW
oman from
Kenya,
Africa
Nikki Zeiring,
International
Supermodel
 Dalagang
Pilipina in
Amorsolo’s
Painting
 Durer
Self-Portrait
1500
 Leonardo
Grotesque
Face of
Scaramuccia
1492
 Picture of
Tom Cruise,
Hollywood
Actor
2003
 Van Gogh
Self-Portrait
1886
14 DEGREES OF AESTHETIC VALUES
1. SUBLIME purely delights
B
2. GRAND delights and awes
E
3. ELEGANT delights and impresses
A
4. CHARMING delights and attracts
U
5. COMIC delights and entertains
T
6. TRAGIC delights and saddens
Y
7. TERRIBLE delights and fears
8. SCARRY glooms and fears
U 9. HORRIBLE glooms and saddens
G 10. BIZARRE glooms and entertains
L 11. POIGNANT glooms and attracts
Y 12. PERVERSE glooms and impresses
13. RUSTIC glooms and awes
14. PATHETIC purely glooms
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SCARRY
Glooms and
fears
COMIC Delights and Entertains

Larry Alcala, Splice of Life

Paul Medina, Pugad Baboy
Lichtenstein,
Forget it!
Forget me!
1963

POP ART
COMEDY
FILM

CHARLIE CHAPLIN
The Tramp
Chaim Sotein,
Carcass of Beef,
1925

BIZARRE
Glooms and
Entertains
Damien Hirst ,This little piggy went to market, this little
piggy stayed at home (1996), INSTALLATION ART
 Hirst,
God
Alone
Knows,
2007
Rene Magritte,
False Mirror
 Frida
Kalo,
The
Dream
Kalo, My Birth, 1932
RUSTIC Gericault, After
Glooms and awes Death, 1721
Bernini, Ecstasy of St. Therese, 1592

SUBLIME
Purely delights
 GRAND
Delights and awes

Beethoven, Ode to
Joy, Ninth Symphony,
Performed by Choir and
Orchestra of 10,000 Members
 QUIZ
LESSONS 1-6

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