aesthetics

Art History

(noun)

The branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of art, taste, and the creation and appreciation of beauty.

Related Terms

  • intuitive
  • formalism

(noun)

Aesthetics is the branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of art, taste, and the creation and appreciation of beauty.

Related Terms

  • intuitive
  • formalism
Marketing

(noun)

The concepts of beauty and good taste; the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste. More broadly, scholars in the field define aesthetics as "critical reflection on art, culture, and nature. "

Examples of aesthetics in the following topics:

  • What Makes Art Beautiful?

    • Aesthetics is the branch of philosophy that deals with the nature and appreciation of art, beauty, and taste.
    • Aesthetics is central to any exploration of art.
    • For Immanuel Kant, the aesthetic experience of beauty is a judgment of a subjective, but common, human truth.
    • For Arthur Schopenhauer, aesthetic contemplation of beauty is the freest and most pure that intellect can be.
    • In these cases, aesthetics may be an irrelevant measure of "beautiful" art.
  • Values, aesthetics, and time

    • The term aesthetics is used to refer to the concepts of beauty and good taste.
    • The phrase, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" is a very appropriate description for the differences in aesthetics that exist between cultures.
  • What Does Art Do?

    • The decorative arts add aesthetic and design values to everyday objects, such as a glass or a chair, transforming them from a mere utilitarian object to something aesthetically beautiful.
    • Typically, fine art movements have reacted to each other both intellectually and aesthetically throughout the ages.
    • The decorative arts add aesthetic and design values to everyday objects.
    • Examine the communication, utilitarian, aesthetic, therapeutic, and intellectual purposes of art
  • Zenga Painting in the Edo Period

    • The ensō symbolizes absolute enlightenment, strength, elegance, the universe, and mu (the void), and it is characterized by a minimalism born of Japanese aesthetics.
    • Japanese aesthetics used in Zenga paintings were shaped by a set of ancient ideals that include wabi (transient and stark beauty), sabi (the beauty of natural patina and aging), and yūgen (profound grace and subtlety).
    • These ideals, along with others, underpin much of Japanese cultural and aesthetic norms on what is considered tasteful or beautiful.
    • Japanese aesthetics now encompass a variety of ideals; some of these are traditional, while others are modern and sometimes influenced from other cultures.
  • The Do's of Using Visual Aids

    • Visual aids should be easily understood, aesthetically pleasing, easy to move, easily seen and heard, and act as a supplement to the speech.
    • Keep your presentation simple so people can focus on the content rather than the aesthetics.
  • What is Art?

    • Interactions between the elements and principles of art help artists to organize sensorially pleasing works of art while also giving viewers a framework within which to analyze and discuss aesthetic ideas.
    • When it comes to visually identifying a work of art, there is no single set of values or aesthetic traits.
    • Despite the seemingly indefinable nature of art, there have always existed certain formal guidelines for its aesthetic judgment and analysis.
    • The various interactions between the elements and principles of art help artists to organize sensorially pleasing works of art while also giving viewers a framework within which to analyze and discuss aesthetic ideas.
  • Photography in the Latter 20th Century

    • Beginning around 1963, the term "snapshot aesthetic" made its way into the vocabulary of the fine art photography world.
    • The snapshot aesthetic typically features off-centered framing and everyday subject matter often presented without apparent link from image-to-image, relying instead on the juxtaposition and disjunction of individual photographs.
    • Published in Camera Work, No. 20, 1907, is a good example of a Pictorialist photograph due to its soft focus and painterly aesthetic.
    • Diane Arbus exemplifies the "snapshot aesthetic" in her work which presents images from the everyday.
    • Discuss the progression of photography from pictorialism and straight photography to the snapshot aesthetic and conceptual work.
  • Global Considerations in Branding and Packaging

    • When branding and packaging for international products, careful consideration must be placed on factors such as language, colors, customs, aesthetics and placement.
    • The term aesthetics is used to refer to the concepts of beauty and good taste.
    • Discuss how language, colors, customs, aesthetics, and placement affect global branding and packaging in products
  • Chicago School of Architecture

    • The Chicago School of architecture is famous for promoting steel-frame construction and a modernist spatial aesthetic.
    • They were among the first to promote the new technologies of steel-frame construction in commercial buildings, and developed a spatial aesthetic which co-evolved with, and then came to influence, parallel developments in European Modernism.
    • Allen Brooks, Winston Weisman and Daniel Bluestone have pointed out that the phrase suggests a unified set of aesthetic or conceptual precepts, when, in fact, Chicago buildings of the era displayed a wide variety of styles and techniques.
  • Gamification in Education

    • The term gamification refers to the process of employing game mechanics and aesthetics to non-game environments.
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