A Philosophy of Art Blog

Someone's got a Blog about the Philosophy of Art here, certainly worth a look...

Photorealism and The Value Of Art

These are all photorealistic paintings and pencil drawings. Consider your response to them and what this means for why we value art. Is it something to do with skill / the appreciation of technique / an understanding of the amount of time and work the artist put in / do we think the artist is like us or different to us / does it matter what the picture is of or about / does it tell us about the world or make us think about it in a different way?

The next two are pencil drawings...

Do we need to know that this is Angelina Jolie?

Oscar Wilde and Aesthetics

Does what it says it might:

All Art is Useless

A letter from Oscar Wilde explaining what he meant by that famous phrase.

Go here.

The Philosophy Of Art

Roger Scruton on Beauty: