Applying Clive Bell Art Concepts to Explain Makeup

Abstract

This article aims to apply Clive Bell's artistic concept to explain makeup, using a study of relevant documents and research. The results of the study found that It is a well-known fact that art is what is created by man where its innovative process is somehow originated by thought, imagination and feeling manifested by various forms, painting sculpture etc. In the area of art, many philosophers, Benedetto Croce, for instance, is of the view that art is the expression or the free creative process of making art work where its process is completed in the thought of artist resulting in making art work there, Tolstoy is of the view that art is the aesthetical creation of work whereby the deep emotion is communicated to other people. In this, Clive Bell is of the view that art is the line, color, form, surface, and space where the arrangement of its components are involved. Here, the relationship of those components is needed to put together harmoniously and consistently in certain form especially the certain form of art leading to the aesthetical feeling in the subtle manner of its own way influencing on the audience does not need to reflect on any social context of culture. However, a question is asked: is makeup the art? From the mentioned art, this research aims to make use of the concept of art to understand the concept of makeup as it is regarded as the art as well. In this paper, a writer argues that making use of Clive Bell’s the concept of art in understanding the makeup ought to be better than Croce’s and Tolstoy’s concept of art and this idea embraces the ‘Significant Form’ correspondingly because of: 1) making up focusses on the significance of Form where the component of line, color, form, and surface are beyond other meaning, 2) the arrangement of its component aspects focusses on the consistency and harmony of appropriate components, 3) it highlights its uniqueness and influence on audiences without any reflection on social context or culture. While doing this, a writer was trying to apply Benedetto Croce’s and Tolstoy’s concept of art to understand the proposed making up too. Consequently, On the one hand, both concepts remain inconsistent, on the other hand, Clive Bell’s the concept shows the applicability to this kind of art successfully.