Anselm Kiefer Essays

"I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art" Anselm Kiefer, a German painter and sculptor, quoted. The artist was born on March 8, 1945 in Donaueschingen, Germany. His father was an art teacher himself, which influenced Anselm's love for art. He grew up surrounded by darkness and nature, one of the key influencer on his art, however, his surroundings were not the only thing that drove his artistic paintings and sculptures in that direction, it was the gruesome Holocaust

The Emptiness Charge in Kant’s Moral Philosophy Introduction: The Emptiness Charge in Kant’s Moral Philosophy Chapter One: The Formalistic Expressions in Kant’s Writings 1.1. The Groundwork of Metaphysics of Morals- The Equivalence Thesis 1.2. The Critique of Practical Reason- The Universal Will Chapter Two: Kant’s Formalism and Its Emptiness Charge 2.1. Hegel’s Empty Formalism Objection 2.1.1. A Restatement of Categorical Imperative 2.1.2. The Limited Interpretation of Hegel’s Emptiness Charge 2

he Emptiness Charge in Kant’s Moral Philosophy Introduction: The Emptiness Charge in Kant’s Moral Philosophy Chapter One: Kant’s Formalism and its Emptiness Charge 1.1 Hegel’s Empty Formalism Objection 1.1.1 The Context of Categorical Imperative 1.1.2 The Limited Interpretation of Hegel’s Emptiness Charge 1.1.3 The Systematic Interpretation of Emptiness Charge 1.2. Mill’s Utilitarianism Charge 1.2.1 Mill’s Utilitarianism 1.2.2 Mill’s Consequentialism Chapter Two: The Formalistic Expressions

Descartes and Hume. Rationalism and empiricism. Two of the most iconic philosophers who are both credited with polarizing theories, both claiming they knew the answer to the origin of knowledge and the way people comprehend knowledge. Yet, despite the many differences that conflict each other’s ideologies, they’re strikingly similar as well. In this essay I will attempt to find an understanding of both rationalism and empiricism, show the ideologies of both philosophers all whilst evaluating why

have mentioned” (Anselm Bk1, Ch. 20). All the good, all the prayers, or even all the love we have for God, none of these can come close to payment owed to God. All these things is due to God anyway. Anselm’s view on atonement gave the backbone of Catholic theology and the reformers doctrine substitution, which is still influential the church’s today. Anselm expected that God would create all man holy. For Anselm the complete reason for God to create man pretty much came down to man choosing to love

Gascoigne, Anselm Kiefer and Gerhard Richter. New Zealand born Australian sculptor, Rosalie Gascoigne (1917 – 1999) is known for her distinctive and poetic assemblages of mostly found materials. Gascoigne once

sunflowers, Barjac, France) blocks of concrete are used to symbolise of power. Kiefer uses dried sunflowers intermingled amongst the bricks, using them to refer to myths and cults relating to the sun . Sunflowers are an element Kiefer repeatedly used in earlier paintings. Throughout history the sun has been related to a higher being. It never dies setting each night and it (the sun) reappears resurrected each morning. Kiefer uses the context of sunlight illuminating through his sunflowers and through

While practices of alchemy may only comprehend to individuals as a mythical practice, alchemy is alive and well in our modern communities today. Whether we admit it or not, some of our hobbies, professions, and even infrastructure encompass the idea of alchemy. Alchemy gained notoriety in Europe and soon became a “forbidden practice” as some deemed alchemy as a means to power and wealth. In Faust, Mephistopheles references alchemy as a metaphor to help the kingdom’s financial problems but to no avail

For my final analysis to the road I decided to create a collage to better help me have a visual of what I seeing while reading the book, the road had an end of times/apocalypse theme. I decided to take that theme and create a world that the father and son was living in which was full off wildlife nothing but nature and humans with no souls. As I read all three of the stories they're all related to death and a disoriented world. The three stories all had seemed to begin as dreams, the narrators were

Site specific art creates a direct relation between the art project in conjunction with the space, to which space is regarded as a point of influence to the artist’s work or even the canvas for the art itself. It creates an environment where audiences have the opportunity to induce intimacy when resonating with the space. This establishes depth in the artwork, which portrays various dimensions in the art. Site specific art is the process of understanding the space, history and form in depth creating

Frank Gehry “Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work – though not consciously.” –Frank Gehry. Frank Gehry is well known for designing the abstract and astonishing architecture for the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles California. The objective of this concert hall is to give a “visual and aural intimacy for an unparalleled musical experience” and “designed to be one of the most acoustically sophisticated