Storm King Art Middle
The greatest artworks convey, by sensory/perceptual means, the deepest metaphysical truth. The deepest metaphysical fact, according to Hegel, is that the universe is the concrete realization of what is conceptual or rational. That is, what’s conceptual or rational is actual, and is the approaching force that animates and propels the self-consciously developing universe. [newline]The universe is the concrete realization of what’s conceptual or rational, and the rational or conceptual is superior to the sensory. So, because the mind and its products alone are capable of reality, inventive magnificence is metaphysically superior to natural beauty (Hegel, Lectures, ).
- Art is an act of expressing emotions, ideas, and observations.
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- Art initially predominates, in every civilization, because the supreme mode of cultural expression, followed, successively, by religion and philosophy.