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A typical aesthetic feature is the gilded carved flower, or the stylized peacock feather. Colored paintings of birds or flowers are often seen. Non-ebonized aesthetic movement furniture may have realistic-looking three-dimensional-like renditions of birds or flowers carved into the wood.
Aesthetics examines the philosophy of aesthetic value, which is determined by critical judgments of artistic taste; [2] thus, the function of aesthetics is the "critical reflection on art, culture and nature". [3] [4] Aesthetics studies natural and artificial sources of experiences and how people form a judgment about those sources of experience.
Aesthetics is a discipline that, within the psychological field, has been studied over the decades by different approaches, including the gestalt and cognitivist ones. In 2005, Chatterjee, [5] stressed the need to use a research approach able to integrate neuroaesthetics with an analytical description of the features of visual stimuli in order to obtain quantifiable parameters.
At least in critical and curatorial use, [18] the term largely supersedes the earlier "found photography," which was most concerned with the eye of the finder. "Found photos" were aesthetic recontextualizations or reinterpretations by artists. [19]
Empirical aesthetics takes a scientific approach to the study of aesthetic experience of art, music, or any object that can give rise to aesthetic judgments. [2] Neuroesthetics is a term coined by Semir Zeki in 1999 [ 3 ] and received its formal definition in 2002 as the scientific study of the neural bases for the contemplation and creation of ...
Applied aesthetics is the application of the branch of philosophy of aesthetics to cultural constructs. In a variety of fields, artifacts (whether physical or abstract) are created that have both practical functionality and aesthetic affectation.
Sara Ferguson, senior series producer at "This Old House," said the staff finds homes to feature on the show in a variety of ways, whether from homeowners writing in or by talking to local ...
Commonly, ornamental garden plants are grown for the display of aesthetic features including flowers, leaves, scent, overall foliage texture, fruit, stem and bark, and aesthetic form. [4] In some cases, unusual features may be considered to be of interest, such as the prominent thorns of Rosa sericea and cacti.