The Judgment of Taste and the Formalism Undertaking in the Arts

Abstract

One of the main reflective activities that have fascinated every human, since pre-Historic times, is about the production and evaluation-critique of a work of art. Art is almost as old as man. It is a form of work, and this work is an activity peculiar to mankind. Man takes possession of the natural elements by transforming it. Man, also dreams working his magic upon nature of being able to transform objects and give them newform by magical means this is the production of what works means in reality, where man is, from the outset a magician. Few questions need to be established to proceed: What are the procedures to follow to analyze a work of art, what inductive processes has to take into consideration and how to establish a detachment between the work of art and the judgement of it or how to evaluate this subjective experience? This paper present two main areas for discussion; first, it establishes definitions of terms and concepts related to “Significant Form”, “Form”, “Formalism”, and “Aesthetics”; and second, the evaluation of the ‘Significant Form’ in a work of art by using Feldman methos; reaching a conclusion based on the evidence of three work of art presented.