After reading Hegel's Aesthetics of Art I was able to understand why a picture or song looks/sounds good. I have acquired knowledge of the fundamentals or art. I used this new knowledge of art and applied it to songs that I like and that have meaning to them. I will analyze a classic country song and find out why it has managed to still be popular after many years. The song is “He Stopped Loving Her Today” by the late George Jones. It is considered the greatest country song of all time according to several polls voted by fans and industry insiders. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel saw art as a structure to explain the relationship between mind and nature in an integrated and evolutionary way. There are three parts to Hegel's philosophical account of art and beauty. These parts include ideal beauty, the different forms that beauty takes in history, and the different arts in which beauty is encountered. Hegel believes that art is more beautiful than nature. This is because art is an expression of the mind while nature is just a mechanical assembly of pieces. Hegel believed that art progressed over time. From ancient art to modern art built on the past version of art and makes it better. An example of the progression of art is cave paintings, Greek sculptors and modern art. Then Hegel discusses how art can be presented in architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry. He also believes that each of these mediums build upon each other and that poetry is the pinnacle of art. His opinion on art can be found on page 94: "Music also treats the sensible as ideal, and does so by denying and idealizing in the individual isolation of a single point, the indifferent exteriority of space, which... middle of paper ......and modern. This shows that over time humans have moved from simple cave drawings to modern architecture and music. Although I do not agree with Hegel in believing that a representation of an event or a place is better than the event/. place itself. For example, I would rather be in the woods than see an imaginative painting of it in a museum. However, I see that he means that the will and spirit of the artist is what makes it in able to paint the site, I believe that some of Hegel's views are timeless, such as his thoughts on the artistic soul and progression. While there are some parts of his views that are dated, such as poetry which is the pinnacle of romantic arts instead of music. However, this is because music was fundamental and evolved from 1831 (the time of his death). He will remain a leader in the philosophy of art and continue to enlighten many people with his philosophy of art.