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Creation: The Art of Art

If art just performs the act required to make a possible object actual, adequately to our cognition of that object, then it is mechanical art; but if what it intends directly is to arouse the feeling of pleasure, then it is called aesthetic art.  Aesthetic art is either agreeable or fine art.  It is agreeable if its purpose is that the pleasure should accompany presentations that are mere sensations; it is fine art if its purposes is that the pleasure should accompany presentations that are ways of cognizing. 

I think the same can be said of a well played chess game.  How else can this be said?  Stuart?


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  • 2 years ago

    chessmag

    The chess is art, sport and science.

  • 4 years ago

    pondersprudently

    You are very good at clarifying my thoughts.  Yes, I believe your insights are correct - with the stipulation that I am quite sure I know almost nothing. . . Like the Milosz quote about cartoon animals being as close to real animals as our understanding of the world is to the real world.
  • 4 years ago

    clayman

    Wow, you have a lot of abstracts crossing paths here!

    Ageeable versus fine art? Agreeable art is primarily for pleasure, while fine art has a cognitive purpose? So erotic art or "pretty pictures"  would be for the pleasure, while a Van Gogh would be for the recognition of feelings we have had before? Of course there are pleasure and cognition in all art, isn't there? Some more in one category than another.

    And playing chess can be either pleasureable and /or cognitive? Meaning you can hate the particular game, but you learn from it? Or conversely you get a big kick out of he game, but don't learn anything new?


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