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A genuine work of art is the sensuous expression of divine or human freedom and life.
Classical art, Hegel contends, fulfills the concept of art in that it is the perfect sensuous expression of the freedom of spirit.
Since true beauty is the direct sensuous expression of the freedom of spirit, it must be produced by free spirit for free spirit, and so cannot be a mere product of nature.
Such sensuous expression of spiritual freedom is what Hegel calls the "Ideal," or true beauty.
The purpose of art, for Hegel, is thus the creation of beautiful objects in which the true character of freedom is given sensuous expression.
Art, we recall, is the sensuous expression of divine and human freedom.
In Hegel's view, this sensuous expression of free spirit constitutes beauty.
Beauty is the sensuous expression of freedom and so must exhibit the concreteness, animation and humanity that are missing, for example, in Egyptian sculpture.
In so doing architecture turns matter not into the direct sensuous expression of spiritual freedom, but into an artificially and artfully shaped surrounding for the direct expression of spiritual freedom in sculpture.
Romantic art, like classical art, is the sensuous expression or manifestation of the freedom of spirit.
It shows us what freedom actually looks like and sounds like when it gives itself sensuous expression (albeit with varying degrees of idealization).
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Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
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