aesthetics in design

Aesthetics

aes·thet·ics or es·thet·ic

Derived from the Greek

verb aesthanesthai

(to perceive)

A. G. Baumgarten, whose

Aesthetica (1750) dealt

with art and the nature

of beauty

Philosophical study of the qualities that make something an

object of aesthetic interest and of the nature of aesthetic

value and judgement. It encompasses the philosophy of art,

which is chiefly concerned with the nature and value of art

and the principles by which it should be interpreted and

evaluated. Three broad approaches to the subject have been

taken, each distinguished by the types of questions it treats

as foremost: (1) the study of aesthetic concepts, often

specifically through the examination of uses of aesthetic

language; (2) the study of the states of mind — responses,

attitudes, emotions — held to be involved in aesthetic

experience; and (3) the study of objects deemed aesthetically

interesting, with a view to determining what about them

makes them so.

There are two traditional views

concerning what constitutes

aesthetic values. The first finds

beauty to be objective, that is,

inherent in the entity itself. The

second position holds that beauty is

subjective, in that it depends on the

attitude of the observer.

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