aesthetic
(adjective)
Concerned with beauty, artistic impact, or appearance.
(adjective)
Concerned with artistic impact or appearance.
Examples of aesthetic in the following topics:
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Fiber
- Fiber arts refer to the use of plant, animal, or synthetic fibers to construct practical or decorative objects, prioritizing aesthetic value over utility.
- Fiber arts, in particular, refer to objects made with these fibers; they focus on the materials and the manual labor of the artist, and tend to prioritize aesthetic value over utility.
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Carolingian Architecture in the Early European Middle Ages
- To that end, the Carolingians borrowed heavily from Early Christian and Byzantine architectural styles, although they added their own innovations and aesthetic style.
- The result was a fusion of divergent cultural aesthetic qualities.
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Painting and Sculpture
- The rationalism and simplicity of classical architecture was seen by contemporaries in the Age of Enlightenment as the antithesis of the backward-looking Gothic aesthetic style.
- Hence, there are many paintings that glorify the heroes and martyrs of the French Revolution, such as David's iconic painting of the assassination of Jean-Paul Marat, that are inspired by classical aesthetic forms.
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Other Means of Representing Space
- When successfully combined with the elements of art they aid in creating an aesthetically very pleasing or interesting work of art.
- The position of the viewer therefore can strongly influence the aesthetics of an image, even if the subject is entirely imaginary and viewed "within the mind's eye. " Not only does it influence the elements within the picture, but it also influences the viewer's interpretation of the subject.