"Esthetic experience" refers to the enjoyment or appreciation of something beautiful or visually pleasing. It is a personal, subjective experience that can be felt when encountering art, nature, or anything that brings a sense of beauty, harmony, or visual appeal.
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Esthetic experience in a democracy is not only a matter of universal concern; it is also a sustainer of the twin democratic ideals of individuality and freedom.
Since esthetic experience is concerned with individuation, which is consummated in personality, it follows that esthetic excellence is an important goal for democracy.
But a good audience thinks about the cultural and symbolic value of this exchange where we can locate the truly elevating, transformative potential of art — the combustion chamber for
emotional esthetic experience.
Let us begin to answer this question by considering the difference between aristocratic and democratic views
of esthetic experience.
The first is that
esthetic experience is a special, separable kind of human activity, and that esthetic judgments are relevant only to certain kinds of activity.
The principle of worth further presupposes that
esthetic experience is an act of discovery.
In
esthetic experience a person is liberated from the bondage of mere organic existence and becomes aware of himself as a spiritual being who is heir to and trustee for a whole world of meanings.
Gunpowder, grass, jasmine, pine, pollution, and patchouli are some of the odors wafting around galleries, museums, and studios these days as artists incorporate scent into
the esthetic experience.
«Second Sight» has been conceived to explore the meanings and symbols that can be identified in the work of these artists through the interpretation of a vast repertoire of images, memories and
esthetic experiences.
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