The Relevance of Beautiful


The relevance of the beautiful. In this reading are touched the part of art as play as symbol and as festival. Firstly we can talk about times when walls were covered with mosaics and decorations. For the Church they gave a new meaning to the visual language of art and later to the forms of poetry and narrative. He talks about the arts in different countries such as Austria and southern Germany for the waves of Baroque art. Hegel, the teacher of idealism defines art as a thing of the past. In the 19th century, every artist lived within a community and appropriate his pluralistic situation. It was during the Renaissance, a time of mathematical construction and scientific progress. There are two points to concentrate, our historical consciousness and the self conscious reflection of modern man and the artist. Historical consciousness, this is not a particularly scholarly method of approach one particular world view. One other step lead us to aesthetics. But what led philosophy to turn its attention to the beautiful? The field of art criticism that tries to develop the differences between scientific demonstration and purely scientific. Criticism is the discrimination of degrees of beauty and beautiful under concepts or produce a comparative quality. The philosophical tradition of aesthetics help us to answer how can we find the concept to cover both what art is today and what it has been in the past. The problem is that we cannot talk about great art as simply belonging to the past. When the concept of art in Malraux, art in the museum without walls. In the definition of Kant’s, about the autonomy of the aesthetic, he talk about the relation to practical reason on the other provided an orientation for further advances in this respect. The concept of play is of particular in the regard. Some thinkers like Huizinga and Guardini, among others, have stressed for a long time that the element of play is included in man’s religion. What does ‘symbol’ mean? It was a technical term in Greek for a token of remembrance.




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