A Philosophy of Art Blog

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

Rothko / Constable Defaced

Here is an article about the guy who got jailed for defacing a Mark Rothko painting... what can we learn about the value of art from this story? And now someone's had a pop at the Hay Wain...

More On The Value Of Art

Stolen, so m ay be slightly different to what we talk about but still very relevant...

Art, China, Censorship

A Prezi that might help explain some of the concepts in The Value of Art...

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:

Jake Chapman: What Is Art

Here's a short documentary that manages to talk about most of the themes we discuss on the nature and purpose of Art:

All Art is Useless

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

Go here.

An Excellent General Revision Resource

If I were you, I'd have a dig around here. There's good stuff on AS and A2 Philosophy...

Fucking Hell by The Chapman Brothers

Here's a video of their installation:

The Philosophy Of Art

Roger Scruton on Beauty: