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Definition:
Made famous in paintings by Pablo Picasso, Cubism marked a dramatic change from
standard representational forms. The cubist movement began in France in the early 20th
century and was characterized by a focus on geometrical shapes and the attempt to depict
an object as if being viewed from multiple angles at the same time in an effort to depict
something of the objects "inner sense" rather than the outer, more superficial form.
Thus, instead of trying to create an illusion of three-dimensions on the canvas, cubists depicted things in terms of the two-dimensional panel they were using. The label "Cubism" was originally applied to such works by Henri Matisse in 1908 as a form of criticism and even mockery, by art critic Louis Vauxcelles. However, it was adopted by its advocates and eventually used without negative connotations.
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What is Aesthetics?
In philosophy, aesthetics is the study of beauty and taste, whether in the form of the comic, the tragic or the sublime. Aesthetics has traditionally been part of other philosophical pursuits like the investigation of epistemology or ethics. However, it started to come into its own and become a more independent pursuit under Immanuel Kant, the German philosopher who saw aesthetics as a unitary and self-sufficient type of human experience.What is Philosophy?
What is philosophy? Is there any point in studying philosophy, or is it a useless subject? What are the different branches of philosophy - what's the difference between aestheitcs and ethics? What's the difference between metaphysics and epistemology?
