The Study on the status of painting from Renaissance to the Encyclopedie edited by Diderot

• Main Authors: Yeh, Chai-hua, 葉嘉華
• Other Authors: Wu Fang-cheng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 1998
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/00416364676647388046

碩士 === 國立中央大學 === 藝術學研究所 === 86 === Abstract My thesis mainly discussed a delicate relationship between the status ofpainting and concept of art.During the Middle age,painting was viewed as theMechanical arts which opposed to the Liberal arts. Through the humanistic discourse on Renaissance,the status of painting was clined to the liberal artsgraually. Up to 17th century,French Academy accepted painting as one of theliberal arts.After fifty years,painting was transferred to be the Fine arts.Asan obervation on this process, this thesis doesn't make any conlcusion,but choose certain method and data properly during my discussion. This thesis os divided into three chapters in accordance with the development on the status of painting.The first chapter explains how humanism in Renaissan-ce, constructed the developmental foundation of discourse on painting.According to A.Chastel's analysis,it indicates the domain of rhetoric and concept of drawing constructed the condition of painting which moves it's placeto the liberal arts through rational dicipline. I select some viewpoints from C.Le Brun, A.Felibien, R. de Piles to make a comparison with each other.Besides,the system of knowledge charged and a lot of new knowledge was produced at the same time.For dealing with this phenomenon, systematization was created next century. In 18th century, painting transferred from liberal arts to fine arts.Thereforethe third chapter,the most important part in this thesis,expresses the develop-ment after painting has been included as the fine arts.In this chapter,I take the Encyclopedia(1750-1780)as my research material, which edited by D.Diderot.In the begining, I consider the System of Human Knowledge of Encyclopedia which presented the framework of systematization.Systematization is considered asituation that formulated a new system which mix the new and the old knowledge.The contributor wrote those articles on the fine arts,quoted the Empiricism as their basic for discussion which resulted in painting got higher status thanthe other arts in the fine arts.From maintaining the old system,the contributorsdidn't complete the function of systematization. D. Diderot, the main editor of Encyclopedia and the contributor of the article <Art>,attempted to achieve this object. He tried to mix the new and the old knowledges, and this attitudeimplied on his viewpoints of traditional dialectic debate between themechanical arts and the liberal srts. In the article <Art>, he distillsan abstract concept from the crafts (arts) and manufactures. And he emphasized on the importance of the mechanical arts. When he located paintingon the sphere of the mechanical arts, he didn't look down upon it. On the contrary, he possessed more objective attitude on painting. The status of painting tended to be stable on the 18th century.