PRINCIPLES OF AESTHETICS

Reported by:
Famero, Anthony James
Group 3
 Aesthetics
• is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of
art, beauty, and taste with the creation and
appreciation of beauty.
• The word – aesthetics – derives from the ancient
Greek word aisthanomai, which means perception by
the senses.
• More broadly, scholars in the field define aesthetics
as “critical reflection on art, culture and nature”.
Eight Aesthetic Principles

Here are some of the aesthetic

principles that most commonly support or
influence artistic creation and critical
judgment about art.

The first three identify value in art

with an object’s ability to fulfill certain
cultural or social functions.
1. Objects are aesthetically valuable if they
are meaningful or teach us truths.
2. Objects are aesthetically valuable if they have
the capacity to convey values or beliefs that are
central to the cultures or traditions in which they
originate or that are important to the artists
who made them.
3. Objects are aesthetically valuable if
they have the capacity to help bring
about social or political change.
4. Objects are aesthetically valuable if they
have the capacity to produce pleasure in
those who experience or appreciate them.
5. Objects are aesthetically valuable if they have
the capacity to produce certain emotions we
value, at least when the emotion is brought
about by art rather than life.

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6. Objects are aesthetically valuable if they
have the capacity to produce special none-
motional experiences, such as a feeling of
autonomy or the willing suspension of
disbelief.
7. Objects are aesthetically valuable if
they possess a special aesthetic property
or exhibit a special aesthetic form.
8. No reasoned argument can conclude
that objects are aesthetically valuable
or valueless.
REFERENCES
http://bjaesthetics.oxfordjournals.org/content/43/2/114.abstract

http://www.academia.edu/6325207/Eight_Aesthetic_Principles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesthetics