Das Schönheitsanzeige

One of the structural characteristics of text is linearity, which refers to how it is read and written within a temporal and continuous flow. This characteristic stands in contrast to "Bild," where viewers scan and explore in various directions. In this photographic work, I have expressed multiple elements in a non-sequential manner, combining them into a cohesive and continuous piece. Furthermore, the billboard artwork utilizes LED lights that function as pixels, displaying repetitive text while moving from left to right. This dynamic expression adds movement and a sense of temporal progression to the artwork, providing viewers with a visually captivating experience. This text contains a quotation from a passage in Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae. The content of this passage is an explanation of Thomas Aquinas' concept of aesthetics. It delves into the elements that constitute beauty and provides a structural perspective on aesthetics, which is why this paragraph has been quoted.

Das Schönheitsanzeige, 2019
20 x 100 cm
Objekt

„Zur Schöheit sind drei Dinge erforderlich. Erstens die Unversehrtheit oder Vollendung (integritas sive perfectio). Dinge Nämlich, die verstümmelt sind, sind schon deshalb hässlich; Zweitens das gebührende Maßverhältnis oder die Übereinstimmung (proportio sive consonantia); drittens die Klarheit (claritas).“

Thomas von Aquin, Summa theologiae, I, q.39, a.8.

„Die Schöheit besteht in einer gewissen Strahlungskraft und in gebührendem Ebenmaß . Beides aber findet sich wurzelhaft in der Vernunft, der das offenbarende Licht und die Herstellung des gebührenden Ebenmaßes in den anderen Bereichen zugehören. Darum findet sich im beschaulichen Leben, das im Vollzug der Vernunft besteht, an sich und wesenhaft Schönheit.“

Thomas von Aquin, Summa theologiae, II-II, q.180, a.2.

“For beauty includes three conditions, integrity or perfection (integritas sive perfectio), since those things which are impaired are by the very fact ugly; due proportion or harmony (proportio sive consonantia); and lastly, brightness or clarity (claritas).”

Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae, I, q.39, a.8.

“Beauty consists in a certain clarity and due proportion. Now each of these is found radically in the reason; because both the light that makes beauty seen, and the establishing of due proportion among things belong to reason. Hence since the contemplative life consists in an act of the reason, there is beauty in it by its very nature and essence.”

Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae, II-II, q.180, a.2.