Ars Apodemica
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We propose that the value of art is registered by the emotion of wonder. Departing from some standard approaches in empirical aesthetics, we focus on the appreciation of art as art rather than mere aesthetic preference.
We analyze wonder and emphasize three subemotional components: cognitive perplexity, perceptual engagement, and a sense of reverence (Joerg Fingerhut)

The history of the classification of the arts is complicated for several reasons but chiefly because the idea of art has changed. The classical idea differed from ours in at least two respects. First, it was concerned not with the products of art but with the act of producing them and in particular the ability to produce them; e.g., it pointed to the skill of the painter rather than to the picture. Second, it embraced not only ‘artistic’ ability but any human ability to produce things so long as it was a regular production based on rules (Wladyslaw Tatarkiewicz)

Wikipedia / Gustave De Smet

The Good House, ca. 1926, Gustave De Smet

Abr 28 2025, Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent

Artsy / Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Felix Gonzalez-Torres titled "Untitled" (Perfect Lovers)

Abr 28 2025, Dallas Museum of Art

Wikipedia / Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), Small Worlds II

Abr 20 2025, Obelisk Art History

Wikipedia / Anagoria

Funerary Relief of Publius Aiedius Amphio and his wife Aiedia Fausta Melior; Rome (Italy), Via Appia; 30 BC

Abr 19 2025, Altes Museum

Wikipedia / Camille Pissarro

Camille Pissarro (1830–1903), The Boulevard Montmartre at Night

Abr 18 2025, National Gallery, London

Wikipedia / Umberto Boccioni

Umberto Boccioni, The City Rises, 1910

Abr 17 2025, MOMA

Wikipedia / Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí's 1929 painting "The Great Masturbator"

Abr 14 2025, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

See Great Art / José Guadalupe Posada

La calavera Oaxaqueña calavera del montón. Número 1, José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913)

Abr 10 2025, Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Wikipedia / Karl Briulov

The Last Day of Pompeii, Karl Briulov, 1828

Abr 10 2025, Wikipedia

Wikipedia / Anders Zorn

Anders Zorn, Midsummer dance 1903

Abr 9 2025, Nationalmuseum Sweden

Wikipedia / Chen Hongshou

Painting by the Chinese Ming Dynasty artist Chen Hongshou (1599-1652)

Abr 9 2025, A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization (University of Washington)

Brooklyn Museum / Place made: Africa

Bobo. Mask (Nyanga), early 19th century

Abr 9 2025, Brooklyn Museum

Mauritshuis / Johannes Vermeer

Johannes Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring, c. 1665

Abr 8 2025, Mauritshuis

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