The phrase
"aesthetic experience" refers to the way we perceive and appreciate something based on its beauty, pleasing appearance, or emotional impact. It's the feeling or enjoyment we get when encountering art, nature, or anything that provokes joy or admiration in our senses and emotions.
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Taking the form of photographic series and video installations, his work investigates the relationships
between aesthetic experience and formation of meaning.
His interests include social justice, multicultural education, immigration studies, community development, the
bilingual aesthetic experience and philosophies of education.
This powerful art claims a place, a reality, for the deepest and most rewarding varieties
of aesthetic experience, in our time and in our visual language.
His practice revolves around our encounters with art, fiction and cinema that explore the links
between aesthetic experience and knowledge production....
«There are
in aesthetic experience potentially as many «arts» as there are encounters with its incidences in the world.
The relationship between the art object and the artist, as a parallel to a venerated deity and a priest, and
aesthetic experience as ultimately religious.
This theory is rationalistic in that it identifies
aesthetic experience with a clear, distinct, and ordered estimation of the external artistic reality.
During a visit to the MoMA he was inspired by the Robert Motherwell painting Elegy to the Spanish Republic: «The
first aesthetic experience... He felt a sensation of high visceral excitement in his stomach, and it seemed as though his eyes and stomach were directly connected».
Throughout it all, Hecker allows her viewer a window into her
own aesthetic experiences while the persistent passage of time is challenged in the memorialization of her subjects.
His talk at OCAD U, «Surrounding Beauty: Thoughts
on aesthetic experience, with reference to the Baroque» is presented in partnership with MOCCA as part of a series of events connected to MOCCA's current exhibition.
The burden of this set of remarks is to contend that an empirical aesthetic, which looks through art or
through aesthetic experience in order to recover the primitiveness of causal efficacy, is most obvious in Whitehead's thought when it is considered in a primarily American historical context.
If indeed we are to judge all thought by the way it «promotes the art of life,» then I think that we must recognize that there are many ways in which that «art» can be promoted, just as there are many different forms and styles within the fine arts, all of which can give rise to particular kinds of
rich aesthetic experience.9
First up is «M», who has noted the HTC 1.5 Ghz tablet's Sense user interface continues to impress in the version rolled out on the Flyer, whilst the overlay to the Google mobile OS delivers a
cohesive aesthetic experience that other Android devices lack along with being highly customisable too.
From room - collapsing environmental installations for today's leading brands and museums to elaborate set design for classical dance, Arsham twists elements of architecture to create
immersive aesthetic experiences that appeal to the divided attentions of a contemporary audience.
Salisbury Cathedral There is no more
profound aesthetic experience in Britain than the spire of Salisbury, rising in medieval sobriety above the city and the plain.
While my work references neo concrete art and numerous art historical investigations, it transcends cultural and physical boundaries in a
pure aesthetic experience.
Although Whitehead never developed his interpretation of
aesthetic experience very far, 6 we can deepen our understanding of artistic expression by attention to the theories of Merleau - Ponty.
It is through Salcedo's attention to materials and the obliteration of the human form in her iconography that the artist
produces aesthetic experiences that humbly invite reflection and remembrance.
For example, Whitehead writes: «We enter the room already equipped with an
active aesthetic experience, and we are charmed with the forms and coloring of the furniture.
Both Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne have repeatedly argued that art and
aesthetic experience arise within a structure of contrast within identity, or unity in variety.3 This structure enables the mind, or the rationalizing self, to grip the beautiful, to hold it within a category, sometimes called a proposition.
Whitehead» s position that nonhumans
enjoy aesthetic experience, moral experience, and nonverbal thought is well substantiated by recent investigations.
4 Interestingly, Leonidas C. Bargeliotes has interpreted
aesthetic experience from the perspective of propositions in his «Propositions as a Lure for Aesthetic Feeling,» Diotima 9 (1981): 29 - 35.
Similarly, human
aesthetic experiences gain their authenticity and value from their being encounters with yet another aspect of the multidimensional reality that encompasses humanity Experiences of beauty are much more than emotion recalled in tranquillity; they are engagements with the everlasting truth of being.
Most demons are drawn to aspects of our world they can't experience in theirs, and Lady Henry's demon is enamored of
magnificent aesthetic experiences above all else.
Trading on allusions to the German lifestyle as well as loftier notions like Minimalism, the simple structure is something of a lodestar illustrating the
complex aesthetic experience that lies ahead among 10 other galleries.