 Feelings are guides to interpretations

Our feelings or emotions is a central role of interpreting a work of art. “The work of art is
apprehended through the feelings as well as through the senses. Emotional numbness
disables here as definitely if not as completely as blindness and defines. Emotion in
aesthetic experience is a means of discerning what properties a work has and experiences”
by Goodman. Which means feelings help us to interpret whether t

Feelings are guides to interpretation Emotions help us to construct a vision of the world and to
define the critical features of that world: Emotions help us to see the environment in a certain
light.
Emotions play a central role in interpreting works of art and in understanding the world.
About emotions in interpreting art Goodman states; “The work of art is apprehended through
the feelings as well as through the senses. Emotional numbness disables here as definitely if
not as completely as blindness and deafness… emotion in aesthetic experience is a means
of discerning what properties a work has and experiences.” Israel Scheffler, a philosopher
who writes about education and art is a proponent of Goodman’s theory of art, offers
elaboration on how the emotions are intimately tied to our perception of the world. Emotions
help us to construct a vision of the world and to define the critical features of that world:
Emotions help us to see the environment in a certain light. Emotions tell us whether it is
“beneficial or harmful, promising or threatening, fulfilling or thwarting.” The role of the
emotions in reading the world applies to interpreting works of art: “reading our feelings and
reading the work are, in general, virtually inseparable processes.”