What Are the Three Laws of the Dialectic Method?

Dialectic philosophy was made popular by Plato’ “Socratic dialogues.” The dialectical method is simply a set of rules applied together to understand more clearly our real interdependent world. “Dialectics is nothing more than the science of the general laws of motion and development of nature, human society and thought.” (Engels) Hegel assembled inside his idealistic …

Egyptian Art

If you’re looking for a travel destination where you can view a very different form of art than anything you are used to, Egypt just may be the place. With their pyramids, architecture, statues, paintings, pottery, jewelry, and more you really can’t go wrong. The art found in Egypt is known to be highly stylized …

Mono No Aware: The Essence of Japan

Mono no aware: the Japanese beauty aesthetic Meaning literally “a sensitivity to things,” mono no aware is a concept describing the essence of Japanese culture, invented by the Japanese literary and linguistic scholar scholar Motoori Norinaga in the eighteenth century, and remains the central artistic imperative in Japan to this day. The phrase is derived …

Paintings and Art in the Online World

Art has been spontaneous expression of human emotion, since the pre historic age. Since then it has come a long way travelling through different phases of history, nourished by the renaissance, cradled by the great artistic hands of Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, Pablo Picasso to contemporary artists like David Aberg. It stages itself in the …

A Review of Michael Baxandall’s Painting and Experience in 15th Century Italy

Baxandall’s Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style was first published in 1972. Although relatively short it has subsequently been published in numerous languages, most recently Chinese, with a second edition published in 1988. Since publication it has been described in such favourable terms as being ‘intelligent, …

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