Monday, 7 May 2012

Is Zyzz still the only thing that comes to your mind when Aesthetics is mentioned? Read this . .


Aesthetics, meaning ‘perception by the senses’ was derived from the original word and spelling ‘aestheticus’  in Latin then later in the 18th century, ‘Aisthetikos’ in the Greek language. Alexander Baumgarten; a German philosopher and educator later defined the word as ‘Aesthetics’ when he used it to describe something in a poem he had written. Immanuel Kant, another German philosopher has described the study of Aesthetics as ‘a unitary and self-sufficient type of human experience’.  It is a combination of two profound ideas; the Philosophy of Art; how it is interpreted and evaluated and the Aesthetic experience of art and non-art objects that may acquire any features or characteristics that are of an aesthetic standard. By ‘Aesthetic experience’ this means perspective of one’s own based on their experiences as all perspectives are grown from experience. When talking about Aesthetic experiences, they are usually positive feelings and emotions towards art or nature as people may describe and relate them to the emotional and mental life of human beings. It is generally a study that deals with the principles of beauty and the artistic taste.

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