Aesthetics

Rather than the animal being shown in a natural pose or in its natural habitat, the taxidermied bird is mounted with aesthetic considerations. Similarly, Francesco’s cabinet display shows that aesthetics were taken into consideration. The four walls that each encapsulate a natural element give the room a balance that hearkens to the perfect balance of the divinely created world. Aesthetics was clearly a serious matter that these collectors considered when designing the arrangement of their…

I would like to compare this with ladies using makeups. I believe this is the pursuing of aesthetics rather than deceiving. Just like Picasso and his abstract paintings, none of them look real, but it is the perfect figure in his mind to express whatever he wanted to express. A photographer wanted to exhibit a perfect photo in his mind, thus he…

The Aesthetic movement holds that literature, among other works of art, should have no meaning placed higher than beauty and the actual art of the work.Wilde crafted The Importance to be an aesthetically pleasing play, and the work is indeed very well executed;…

reflects, “ Expensive it was, but at least so far as looks were concerned I counted it as one of my successes” (3). Based on this statement readers can tell Tanizaki values aesthetics over practicality. He cares more about the hearths ability to look right in a Japanese room, rather than cost and efficiency. To most Westerners, aesthetics are indeed a value, but not the primary concern. The importance of the way something will look in a room is often overcast by other priorities such as how…

be argued and debated over for the aesthetic value of which that it contains. So what constitutes this poem as aesthetically appealing or beautiful according to Aristotle and Plato? How do these two philosophers view the value or art and what constitute their assessments? Not only does this poem, The Odyssey, display illustrative details that arouse the reader’s imagination but also it addresses a bigger problem, which Homer structures to be the main aesthetic value of beauty. This epic poem was…

Neil Smith’s The Production of Nature from Uneven Development: Nature, Capital and the Production of Space (1987) draws on the work of Karl Marx to explore how the structure of capitalism has affected society’s relationship with the natural world as factor of production. Smith argues that our conceptions about nature as being separate from society are what enable us to exploit it. In order to explain this concept Smith divides nature into first nature and second nature. First nature, being the…

Throughout the history of art, a variety of artists made contributions in expanding the definition of art. Some dedicated their energy in a restrained way as a personal practice, some devoted their energy into fiercely challenging the society’s current aesthetic conventions. The two artists I am going to discuss in this essay are Marcel Duchamp and Gerhard Richter. Even though they lived in different time periods, they are both influential to modern art. They can be controversial for their…

more about the mind and drawing a universal conclusion based on a specific predilection, than about the trees themselves. As a result, it would seem necessary to define what it means exactly to be partial to something. If one’s tendency lies in the aesthetic appeal of an object or living thing, such as a tree, then a distinction must be drawn between them and the person who chooses a tree due to the number of rings on its trunk and its history. There may, of course, be another individual who…

here to tell you what it means to be beautiful, because in truth, beauty is subjective. The definition of beauty, according to a Google search of “beauty definition”, is “a combination of qualities, such as shape, color, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight.” However, our society has begun a movement of some sorts, to change the definition of beauty from being physical to being solely internal. I, like a good chunk of the general public, find the idea of internal…

If one is observing a painting of Pollock without any interaction with it, that would not mean she/he does not enjoy the aesthetic part of the artwork. I prefer to describe the importance of an interactive environment after discussing the possible definition of this word. Stern in his book cited an interactive situation let participant have moving-thinking-feeling. In fact,…