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  2. Applied aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    A new art form struggling for acceptance is digital art, a by-product of computer programming that raises new questions about what truly constitutes art.Although paralleling many of the aesthetics in traditional media, digital art can additionally draw upon the aesthetic qualities of cross-media tactile relationships; interactivity; autonomous generativity; complexity and interdependence of ...

  3. History of aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    German and British thinkers emphasized beauty as the key component of art and of the aesthetic experience, and saw art as necessarily aiming at absolute beauty. For Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten aesthetics is the science of the sense experiences, a younger sister of logic, and beauty is thus the most perfect kind of knowledge that sense ...

  4. Outline of ergonomics - Wikipedia

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    Aesthetics – Philosophical study of art and beauty; Comfort – Sense of physical or psychological ease; Usability, also known as Ease of use – Capacity of a system for its users to perform tasks; Business performance management – Processes to bring output into alignment with goals

  5. Industrial design - Wikipedia

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    Industrial design, as an applied art, most often focuses on a combination of aesthetics and user-focused considerations, [6] but also often provides solutions for problems of form, function, physical ergonomics, marketing, brand development, sustainability, and sales. [7]

  6. Line of beauty - Wikipedia

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    Serpentine lines from Hogarth's The Analysis of Beauty. Line of beauty is a term and a theory in art or aesthetics used to describe an S-shaped curved line (a serpentine line) appearing within an object, as the boundary line of an object, or as a virtual boundary line formed by the composition of several objects.

  7. Chinese furniture - Wikipedia

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    Culture has a deep impact on traditional Chinese throughout history. Taking Ming dynasty furniture as an example, artistic symbolism reflects the philosophy of ancient Chinese culture. Both the pleasing aesthetics and the symbolic meaning of Ming dynasty furniture contribute to advocating the Chinese style towards contemporary home furnishing.

  8. Everyday Aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    The neglect of aesthetic theory to consider the role of sensibility in everyday life was first pointed out by Katya Mandoki who in 1994 coined the word Prosaics [4] (drawing a distinction from Aristotle’s Poetics [5] focused on art) to denote a sub-discipline that would specifically inquire the aesthetics involved in daily activities emphasizing the styles and forms of expression in face-to ...

  9. Aestheticism - Wikipedia

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    Aestheticism (also known as the aesthetic movement) was an art movement in the late 19th century that valued the appearance of literature, music, fonts and the arts over their functions. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] According to Aestheticism, art should be produced to be beautiful, rather than to teach a lesson , create a parallel , or perform another didactic ...