How Does Art Imitate Nature? | Fr. Anselm Ramelow, O.P.
The Thomistic Institute
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The Three Paradigmatic Theories of Art
Art is to be looked at just for its own sake and in it by itself without any relation to anything else outside of it, neither through an object nor a subject. Here does not even the mind of the author or artist that matters, let alone the representational content of art. What matters alone is what Clive Bell and Roger Fry called "significant form" The medium itself, therefore, is the message, as is again most obvious in abstract painting where forms, shapes and colors are explored in their own right.
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