Volume : 6, Issue : 6, June - 2017

THE RELEVANCE OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHERS THEORIES OF ART

Dr. P. K. Rejimon

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Art is one of the cultural activities of man through which he reaches his ideas, values, feelings, aspirations and reactions to life. The generic purpose of art is to provide aesthetic experience and enjoyment to the recipient. Art give outlet to the artist himself to reveal and express his innermost aspirations, feelings, sentiments and also the impressions of life. Aesthetic experience in its essence is indescribable and it does not occur in terms of conscious thought. The theory of art in West begins with the Plato&rsquo;s imitative theory which proposed that art is imitative in nature. Aristotle also argued that art is representation of the ideal. Both Plato and Aristotle were forced to establish a theory of art based on their metaphysical views about the nature of the world. </span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Immanuel Kant, representative of intellectualist theory said that art and beauty gives only a subjective satisfaction, we cannot speak of the beauty for the object them. Schopenhauer profoundly presented the theory of art as the withdrawal of the will.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>