Aesthetics

slowly deflating inside. Many young people clings to the idea that physical perfection is attainable, yet they fail to realize human beings are imperfect creatures. Physical beauty plays a captivating role in amongst many young people yet true aesthetics are derived internally. “That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste,” John Green rationalizes. The…

Throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s, artists including Sol LeWitt, Mel Bochner and Dorothea Rockburne turned to site-specific, drawing-based installations in order to disengage aesthetic experience from the autonomous object, foregrounding the institution as its constitutive framework. Curiously, it appears to have escaped definition in reductive, purely material terms by even the most vociferous advocates of medium-specificity.4 Rather than positing an adherence to the ‘medium’ of drawing…

Any individual that has the slightest experience with critiquing a piece of artwork knows the potential ramifications in stating his or her opinion. Many individuals have the tendency to push and prod others to see something in their view, only to get argumentative if nobody is standing beside them. If someone happens to agree, it could be solely to satisfy the other person. In this case, the concepts are not being fully understood, conversations are just being held to appease. Granted, not all…

Relationship of Kant’s Universal Moment to Mathematical Sublime in Boy (2010) Born on April 22, 1724 in the town of Königsberg, East Prussia, Immanuel Kant was the fourth child of nine children to a harness maker, Johann Georg and his wife Anna Regina Kant. This German philosopher’s major works offer an analysis of theoretical and moral reason and the ability of human judgement as well as having a great influence on the intellectual movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. During his…

main character is likened to flowers many times throughout the story. On the surface it might have seemed like Paul, the main character, had a simple fascination with flowers because of their beauty; however, the relationship goes much deeper than aesthetics. Paul wanted to be different and express himself in a way that went against the lifestyle that was associated with his humdrum town. Most of all, Paul wanted to leave his bedroom, with its grimy yellow walls that were connected to the drab…

Beauty, a combination of qualities, such as shape, color, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight. Beautiful, of a very high standard; excellent. These two words control all aspect of a woman’s life. They spend most of their time making themselves look nice to please society. For instance, they wear make-up, designer clothes and shoes, nice jewelry, and they make sure their hair is always done nicely. This idea that women has to look good for society is the main theme in…

photographer's artistic input. The design is a set of tools, not a standardized process. For something to be “well designed” it could be simple, or it could be involved. It could be considered aesthetically pleasing, or it could be considered gaudy. Aesthetics and simplicity are not requirements. My Portrait Photography design philosophy consists of a linguistic concept with a directed reality involvement. I apply my creative input that works in tandem with the reality that already…

insights into new or alien aesthetic categories.” In this one can see that not everything that one finds unappealing is ugly. In fact what one fines ugly is really beautiful in a since. This is what Shapiro is talking about when he says, “sometimes the object of beauty is not just unexpected” Another person to look at when determining if this painting is beautiful or not is Umberto Eco. In Eco’s On Ugliness, he says “Attributions of beauty or ugliness are often due not to aesthetic but to…

Alfred Stieglitz. Accompanied by pure photography style, Stieglitz was instrumental in helping make photography the fine art, and this eye-catching image, Winter, Fifth Avenue, is one of his best known works captured in 1892, which is no doubt an aesthetic art. As a whole, Stieglitz unified this image by the aid of natural elements—rain and snow, which perfectly depicted the scene that the storm swallowed dark horses, the carriage, as well as the man who struggled or probably competed with the…

it look like she was rocking the baby to sleep or just gently swaying him back and forth. Ephraim created an extraordinary version of the ordinary mother and son/daughter. He uses beauty which is the combination of color and form that please the aesthetic…