Understanding Aesthetics and Beauty




What is aesthetics?

  • From the design-centric perspective, aesthetics is one of the dimensions of design.
  • Aesthetics is a set of principles concerned with the nature and appreciation of beauty (Oxford Dictionary).
  • The branch of philosophy which deals with questions of beauty and artistic taste.

What is beauty?

  • A combination of qualities, such as shape, colour, or form , that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight.
  • A combination of qualities that pleases the intellect.
  • Denoting something intended to make someone more attractive.
  •  a beautiful or pleasing thing or person, in particular:
  • A beautiful woman
  • An excellent example of something
  • The pleasing or attractive features of (something)
  • The best aspect or advantage of something
  • Middle English: from Old French beaute, based on Latin bellus 'beautiful, fine
Description of beauty

  • Aesthetic object
Beauty is the integration of subjective sense, emotion and objective object.

  • Aesthetic characteristics
Beauty is the objective natural characteristics of the object.

  • The essence of beauty = the source of beauty
Beauty is the product of human practice; it is the hominisation of nature, therefore it is objective and social. 

The essence of beauty

Beauty is
  • The harmony of form. (Classicism)
  • The attribute of God. (Neo-Platonism)
  • Perfection. (Rationalism)
  • Happy. (Empiricism)
  • The sense revelation of ideas. (German Classical Aesthetics)
  • Relation.



BEUTY IS SUBJECTIVE

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