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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