Formalism

One main philosophy of art is often not enough for a person to judge it. Most people fall into two categories of a perspective. For example, a person can have a mixture of instrumentalism and imitationalism. As a result, they judge art based on whether it can probe into the audiences’ thoughts bu...

Emotionalism: Evoking the emotional responses

Both instrumentalist and emotionalist artists pay more attention to the messages behind the arts than they do on the form. This attribute makes them different from artists who follow the formalist or the imitationalist perspectives.

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Imitationalism: Believing in the “imitation”

The key principle of imitationalism is that authentic art should imitate actual shapes. This philosophy of art says that more an art piece looks like it was right in front of the viewers’ eyes, the more that piece becomes decent art.

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Creative writing, filmmaking, painting, sculpting, singing and dancing are just some examples of things that most of us link to the word “art”.

Still, there are four ways in which we can examine whether a particular “art” has fulfilled its role and purpose or not. These four ways are imita...