Ut Pictura poesis? Baudelaire--the criritc of art

• Main Authors: HU, I-fei, 胡一妃
• Other Authors: Alain Leroux
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 1998
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/06026986351589685802

碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 西洋文學研究所 === 86 === Synopsis This thesis aims to analyse Baudelaire's personal esthetic opinion in his artistic criticism, the relation between his artistic theory and poetic creation, and then discuss the argument of "Ut Pictura Poesis" existing in Western esthetics. In 1845, Baudelaire published his first Salon criticism. After he finished another Salon criticism in 1846, his esthetics system has been formed. The first chapter of this thesis tries to analyse the external question of art that Baudelaire devoted in his debut of critic career, in other words, the question of the particularity of the color and the line, and the relation between the picture and the drawing. The second chapter of this thesis tries to discuss Baudelaire's esthetic theory. After the Salon of 1846, Baudelaire ignored the problem of artistic exeution, and concerned on the internal form of art. In this chapter, the method of mnemonic, the imagination, the correspondence, the romanticism, and the modernity are the essential issues in Baudelaire's esthetic system. All of these concepts appear a harmonious respondence, and represent the synthesis of Baudelairien esthetics. And the theory of modernity, although there is contradiction in the definition, is one of the important concepts of Baudelaire's esthetic system. This theory also influences the following artistic current to stress the beauty of the contemporary epoch and the eternity of the present. "The Flower of Evil" and "The Spleen of Paris" are Baudelaire's most outstanding poetic creation. In the two books, we can easily find the esthetic concepts declared in his artistic critics. The third chapter of this thesis focuses on the relationship between Baudelaire's artistic theory and his poetry so as to find out how his poetry is influenced by his artistic theory. The argument of "Ut Pictura Poesis" has always been the important issues of the Western classic esthetics. The fourth chapter of my thesis tries to explore Baudelaire's opinion on "Ut Pictura Poesis" expressed in his artistic theory and then concludes that he considers "Poetics" is the general element of all arts.