aesthetics

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Balance

  • Just as symmetry relates to aesthetic preference and reflects an intuitive sense for how things "should" appear, the overall balance of a given composition contributes to outside judgments of the work.
  • Symmetrical balance is the most stable, in a visual sense, and generally conveys a sense of harmonious or aesthetically pleasing proportionality.