Truth And Beauty

Flashcards about Truth And Beauty

Jonathan Wickleman

A German art historian who championed the classical ideal for its noble simplicity and quiet grandeur.

Neo-Hellenism

The fashion for Greek art.

Idealized Greece

Offering a timeless beauty that was beyond history.

J. Hates Fuseli

Published an English translation of Wickleman's work: reflections on the painting and sculpture of Greece in 1765.

Elgin Marbles

Sculptures from the Parthenon in Athens, purchased from the Ottomans.

Aphorism

A pithy observation containing a general truth.

Epigram

A pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way.

Ecrasis

A vivid evocation of a work of art.

Limitation of Beauty and Truth

The equation of beauty and truth may be too limited to express human knowledge.

Imagination and Truth

An atheistic statement on the role of the human imagination and its role in connecting beauty, ethics, and truth.

Excellence of Art

The excellence of every art is its intensity capable of making all disagreeables evaporate from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.

Urn

Stimulates the sense of the observers, simulating emotions as and well as imagination.

Inner Plural Address

Resulting in a bold, seemingly axiomatic, self evident, or unquestionable statement that employs prosopropia, a common characteristic technique of giving a silent object voice.

Prosopropia

Giving a silent object voice.

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The slowed down the meter, giving dramatic weight to his ostensibly aphoristic statement.

John Barnard

The people in the urn belong to an ominous world of coldness and fixed city.

Brian Stone

The eternal life of the cold pastoral is static and therefore not only alive in art but dead in life.

Keats

Keats surrounds the with all these pressing questions and tries to assure us at the end with its ventriloquant wisdom, yet our doubts remain even in all these exquisite sounds and shape, paradoxes to contemplate about art and life and beauty and truth.

Andrew Motion

In order to fulfill himself as a beauty loving and truth telling poet, he must remain faithful to the world of experience and suffer the historical process which constantly threatens to extinguish his idealism rather than opt for a world of substitutions and abstractions.

Keats

Concept of an eternal truth and beauty preoccupied him.

Imagination

The imagination actively creates truth, but emotions also play a role, a pathway for the truth.

Paradoxes

The poem and the urn do not have one meaning; the point is to be overwrought, to dwell in the difficult paradoxes, questions, and exclamations, and not reach for the simple or factual, to be human and mortal and not want to be and to want to make art.

Camille Guthrie

Critical readings.

Elgin Marbles

Interest in Greek art.

Negative Capability

Evading certainty.

Classical Ideal

Noble simplicity and quiet grandeur.

Final Lines

Beauty is truth.

Final Lines

Truth beauty.

Final Lines

That is all.

Final Lines

All ye need to know.

Imagination

Whether it existed before or not.

1817

November

Creative of essential beauty

All of our passions as of love.

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Andrew Motion

Beauty-loving and truth telling poet