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“What Is Art For?”

“Aesthetic Realism sees the purpose of art as, from the beginning, the liking of the world more….It is well to look at an American history of world art to ascertain whether art puts into action the deepest desire of man, with that desire being to like the world….”

“The Opposites Theory”

In the following issues is serialized The Opposites Theory, a work Eli Siegel wrote in the late 1950s. It is a discussion, scholarly and vivid, of the explanation of beauty on which Aesthetic Realism is based—the principle that “All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.”

Art & Your Life: The Same Subject
Issue #1686, February 21, 2007
The Beauty of Art & the Pain about Love
Issue #1687, March 7, 2007
Beauty, Contempt, & Ourselves
Issue #1688, March 21, 2007
The Opposites—in Everyday Confusion & in Art
Issue #1689, April 4, 2007
Prose & Parents
Issue #1690, April 18, 2007
Issue #,
Ugliness & Beauty, Contempt & Art
Issue #1692, May 16, 2007
Spontaneity & Plan—in Art, Ourselves, a Nation
Issue #1693, May 30, 2007
The Weighty & Light—in Ourselves & Art
Issue #1694, June 13, 2007
The Human Drama
Issue #1695, June 27, 2007
Slowness & Speed—in Art & Us!
Issue #1696, July 11, 2007
What Our Lives Are For—& the Moment
Issue #1697, July 25, 2007
The Ease & Difficulty We’re Looking For
Issue #1698, August 8, 2007
Issue #,
Art and the Purpose of Our Lives
Issue #1700, September 5, 2007

 

Art Essays

  • Art as Composition
  • Art as Drama
  • Art as Energy
  • Art as Flexibility
  • Art as Humor
  • Art as the Exquisite
  • Art as, Yes, Humility
  • The Drama of Hardness and Softness in Painting

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