CLIVE BELL


THE AESTHETIC HYPOTHESIS

 








Santa Sophia (Hagia Sophia)

Istanbul Turkey






Chartres
Stained Glass

















Persian Bowl with Figures
5th Century B.C.






Aztec, AD 1325-1521
Mexico






Stone Kneeling Figure
Chalchiuhtlicue



Stone bust 
Quetzalcoatl






GIOTTO


Frescoes at Padua
c. 1300







Archangel Gabriel



St. Joachim, Meeting at the Golden Gate








The Ascension


St. Francis Giving His Cloak to a Beggar







Nicolas Poussin




A Dance to the Music of Time










Landscape with a Man washing his Feet at a Fountain

about 1648






Piero della Franscesco




The Baptism of Christ
1450






Portrait of Sigismondo
c. 1450






Paul Cézanne
 French, 1839-1906





Madame Cézanne

in a Yellow Chair


1893/95

oil on canvas





The Basket of Apples

 c. 1895
oil on canvas


"There is no line . . . there are only contrasts."  Paul Cezanne



Frith


The Railway Station












NOTRE-DAME-LA-GRANDE
Poitiers











Standing male worshiper, Early Dynastic I–II; 2750–2600 B.C.
Mesopotamia, Eshnunna (modern Tell Asmar)










Bowl with Human Feet, ca. 3750–3550 B.C.E.;  Predynastic period
Egyptian












Violin-shaped Figurine

c. 3200 - 2800 B.C.

Cycladic Female Figurine

2800 - 2300 B.C.









Wei Buddha








T'ang Lady
T'ang Buddha








 Henri Matisse (French, 1869–1954)

Nasturtiums with the Painting "Dance", (1912)