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  2. Aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    It examines topics such as art works, aesthetic experience, and aesthetic judgment. [15] Aesthetic experience refers to the sensory contemplation or appreciation of an object (not necessarily a work of art), while artistic judgment refers to the recognition, appreciation or criticism of art in general or a specific work of art. In the words of ...

  3. Art as Experience - Wikipedia

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    The final import is intellectual, but the occurrence is emotional as well. Aesthetic experience cannot be sharply marked off from other experiences, but in an aesthetic experience, structure may be immediately felt and recognized, there is completeness and unity and necessarily emotion. Emotion is the moving and cementing force.

  4. Psychology of art - Wikipedia

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    The aesthetic experience encompasses the relationship between the viewer and the art object. In terms of the artist, there is an emotional attachment that drives the focus of the art. An artist must be completely in-tune with the art object in order to enrich its creation. [ 22 ]

  5. Neuroesthetics - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. History of aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    For Immanuel Kant the aesthetic experience of beauty is a judgment of a subjective but similar human truth, since all people should agree that "this rose is beautiful" if it in fact is. However, beauty cannot be reduced to any more basic set of features.

  7. Aesthetic interpretation - Wikipedia

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    In the philosophy of art, an interpretation is an explanation of the meaning of a work of art. [a] An aesthetic interpretation expresses a particular emotional or experiential understanding most often used in reference to a poem or piece of literature, and may also apply to a work of visual art or performance. [1]

  8. Aesthetic emotions - Wikipedia

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    Aesthetic emotions are emotions that are felt during aesthetic activity or appreciation. These emotions may be of the everyday variety (such as fear, wonder or sympathy) or may be specific to aesthetic contexts. Examples of the latter include the sublime, the beautiful, and the kitsch. In each of these respects, the emotion usually constitutes ...

  9. Arthur Schopenhauer's aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    The aesthetic experience temporarily emancipates the subject from the Will's domination and raises them to a level of pure perception. "On the occurrence of an aesthetic appreciation, the will thereby vanishes entirely from consciousness." [8] Genuine art cannot be created by anyone who merely follows standard artistic rules. A genius is ...