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    Existentialism

    Basic Philosophies

    Key Contributors

    Influences on Art

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    Existentialism

    A Philosophical viewpoint Came up in the nineteenth century Has greatly influenced art and literature Basic Factors:

    Futility of Existence

    Constancy and freedom of Choice Individual purpose of existence

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    Philosophies

    Existence precedes essence Freedom and Choice Dread and Anxiety Bad Faith Alienation and Estrangement Absurdism Nothingness and death

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    ANDREW WYETH

    Christina's World (1948)

    Existence Precedes Essence

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    Freedom and Choice

    Choices make Destiny

    Freedom to Choose

    Risk and responsibility forconsequences

    A human being is absolutely free and

    absolutely responsible. Anguish is the

    result. Jean-Paul Sartre

    YVES KLIEN

    Le Saut dans le Vide (Leap into the Void)

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    Dread and Anxiety

    "I was walking along a path with two

    friendsthe sun was setting

    suddenly the sky turned blood redI

    paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned

    on the fencethere was blood and

    tongues of fire above the blue-blackfjord and the citymy friends walked

    on, and I stood there trembling with

    anxietyand I sensed an infinite

    scream passing through nature."

    --Edvard Munch on his inspiration

    to paint The Scream

    EDVARD MUNCH

    The Scream (1893)

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    Bad Faith

    Roots from inability to contain Dread or

    Anxiety Lying to Oneselfto constrain

    Freedom/Choice How one Should behave vs How one

    Wants to

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    Alienation and

    Estrangement From all other Humans From Human Institutions From the past and future We only exist right now,

    right here

    EDGAR DEGAS

    Labsinthe (1876)

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    Absurdism

    PHILLIP BLACKMAN

    There's a Waiter in my Soup

    Existence is Meaningless The World is irrational Search for Meaning conflicts

    with universal order

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    Nothingness and Death

    JEFFREY SCOTT

    Void II (1999)

    Nothingness is our inherent lack of

    self. We are in constant pursuit of a

    self. Nothingness is the creative well-

    spring from which all human

    possibilities can be realized.

    Jean-Paul Sartre

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    Some Famous Existentialists

    Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

    Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) Albert Camus (1913-1960)

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    Thank you

    --Shirshendu Mukherjee