![]() ![]() ![]() It does not matter if they are privileged or not, I personally want to have my own idea about beauty and freely judge art or any other phenomenon. Indeed, it is not right to judge the beauty of something based on other people’s opinions. As for the three criteria that allow evaluating works of art, they are the specificity, clarity, and sincerity of the feeling or emotion it conveys to people.Īs for me, I could not agree with Tolstoy’s ideas. ![]() Only the specific effect on people can define art as precisely this is its primary purpose. However, identifying the real beauty with the taste of a select group of people is wrong, as well as turning aesthetics into the study of this concept simply because there is no definition of beauty (Tolstoy, 1960). To begin with, the writer mentions his disagreement with the accepted ideas of beauty and states that they are just a special privileged class’s attempt to canonize those artworks that they find pleasant and engaging. ![]()
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