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What I Learned About My Past Judgement Essay

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Until this year, I feel that I used the word beautiful and aesthetic too lightly. This reflection came after I learned about couple of philosophers and their theories. I felt as if I was using the word without truly understanding what these words embody. One of the reasons I felt this way about my past judgement is because I have always tried to identify why I like this work, what works compositionally, and whether it follows the standard of aesthetics we learn in principles of design or such. I always looked for the golden rule, colour harmony, and how elements and principles of design worked together. I learned about Hume and I did not agree with his idea that there are higher people who can make aesthetic judgements and that we must follow their guidelines and rules; I did not agree with this but I was following it. I felt the need to re-establish whether all the things I’ve called beautiful were actually beautiful after I studied other philosophers and their philosophy. I made trips to the ROM Chihuly Exhibit and AGO Mystical Landscape Exhibit, trying to experience something we call an aesthetic experience, trying to experience beauty and sublime and hopefully make an aesthetic judgement. Upon this trip I realized that I find beauty in light, reflection, and human attempt at natural things. When I went back to my notes couple days later I realized that a lot of my thoughts can be explained and be related mostly by philosophies of Sir Edmund Burke, Immanuel Kant and

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