Essays on Aesthetics

principles of the Aesthetic Movement, a contemporary to Wilde and Dorian Gray, that became popular during the fin-de-siècle English Victorian society. Aestheticism believes in imitating art and living life experiencing the pleasures of the world, adopting the hedonistic way of living. A few pages into “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, aesthetics becomes a prominent theme as shown by both the artist Basil Hayward, who uses beauty to inspire his art, and Lord Henry Wotton who praises the aesthetic philosophy

Discuss the meaning of “ugliness” in visual art. Beauty and ugliness play different roles in aesthetics, despite their relationship to one another. Aesthetics can be described as the science of beauty and ugliness (Langfeld, 1920). Historically, ugliness has been seen as an aesthetic predicate, the contradictory of the beautiful. This essay will discuss the meaning of ugliness in visual art, by using various psychological views, to truly understand what it means to aesthetically experience ugliness

In Death in Venice, the theme of decadence caused by aestheticism appears through Gustav von Achenbach’s eccentric, specifically homoerotic, feelings towards a Polish boy named Tadzio. Although his feelings spring from a sound source, the boy’s aesthetic beauty, Aschenbach becomes decadent in how excessively zealous his feelings are, and his obsession ultimately leads to his literal and existential destruction. Thus exemplifying, as will be examined in the following, how aestheticism is closely

The sublime is a feature present in many art works. It is an aesthetics category that, unlike other categories such as beauty or the picturesque, examines great and awe-inspiring phenomena. The sublime is an aesthetic notion that describes the emotions of awe that people experience when they encounter the immense, powerful, and even terrifying forces of the natural world. Like all aesthetic notions, the sublime produces various emotions with the persons viewing a piece of art. Moreover, many

own natural aesthetics. Therefore, the artwork is both the synthesis of necessity and freedom. Since it is free and ingenious, the artwork is the artist’s inspiration. Indeed, the artist may deal with the strict rules of the natural world. Even if his inspiration is free and the material he uses is original, however, the artist may confront himself with the rigid mechanism of the rules of

is whether photography is a transcription of the real world or an interpretation. This question holds importance due to the argument it makes through the explanation of photography by the way it is valued and judged based on the taste of popular aesthetic and artistic visions. Bourdieu argues that objective appearance of the world is socially constructed and changes depending on conditions and traditions our society is exposed to. Bourdieu states; “If it has immediately presented itself with all

Subjectivism holds that aesthetic judgements are subjective and therefore tell us nothing about the work of art; they only tell us about the work's effect on the person making the judgement. Subjectivism is the doctrine that "our own mental activity is the only unquestionable fact of our experience", instead of shared or communal, and that there is no external or objective truth. If I say that Mumford and sons new song is amazingly beautiful and you say that your thought it was lame, neither

World When you first walk into Cravens World Exhibit the walls and floor are painted white, very simplistic in order to avoid overwhelming the observer. The observers eye is automatically drawn to a circular shelving system, which holds many of the aesthetic artifacts. The center piece is transparent to provide the observer the opportunity to examine objects from every side and perspective. There are no distractions in the exhibit, other than the other marvelous artifacts mounted on the wall and in

double-spaced (repeat, double-spaced), with 10-12 font size. Be sure to write your NAME and ID number in your paper. 1. Differentiate between: a. Ethics and Aesthetics Ethics constitutes the difference between right and wrong.Ethics are usually more broad and informal than laws, they are usually taught in ones childhood. Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy that emphasizes on the beautiful and the ugly. It can be defined as the study of the mind and emotions in relation to the sense of beauty

different interpretation based on the shared knowledge and personal knowledge that one experienced. Knowing that there are various interpretation of arts, the real life application that comes to my mind to ask “how do we weigh beauty” or “what is aesthetics”? Back in the fifteenth century, Renaissance’s art work, literature and science had a huge impact in Europe. The reason why the art work or literature represent the specific time period is because shared knowledge of art has influenced personal