Essays on Aesthetics in Art

The world of art has been prohibited of its practical means and instrumental values, and of its free presence in human lives. Autonomy has been used in aesthetics in many different ways and aspects of life. The genesis of the autonomy of art has always been a debatable subject for years till now. Some might find it useful while others might not. Many different opinions have tackled the different levels on which art autonomy of art is conveyed. Each one of Kant, Schiller, and the Avant-Garde ...

Nostalgia is infamously subjective, making it difficult to find a single visual and auditory stimulant that affects the mass audience, however, this essay will explore variations of nostalgia and the chosen text's similarities and differences in order to discover the most successful use of nostalgia created by a text's aesthetic choices. Within this essay will be details of three uniquely individual texts, each with separate aesthetics but each with an equally parallel purpose. To instil a ...

In what is often referred to as the ‘ecological era’, the 21st century is faced with the prevailing need for a transformed relationship between humans and their biophysical habitat, including all other non-human actors. In the face of increased ecological awareness, landscape architecture as a discipline is under pressure to develop new concepts and approaches to complex environmental and social challenges (Kaplan, 2009). But the call for more eco-centric design methodologies have provoked an ...

This essay aims to explore landscape art in a comprehensive and descriptive way. Firstly, this essay will provide a comprehensive description as well as comparison of No 1 Crown Mines by Moses Tladi, as well as Mabu, Mubu, Mmu by Dineo Bopape. Secondly, this essay will discuss the materiality in both of these works in the context of conventional landscape art. Moreover, this essay will explore the notions of the sublime, spirituality and religion according to conventional landscape art. ...

 Nordic modernism came to light in response to previous architectural styles and social changes in the late 19th and 20th century, essentially seen to be a reaction to realism. Aesthetics often dominate architecture; however, the aesthetic side of Nordic modernism is not all that lead the movement. “Nordic design attempts to achieve a balance between form, function, color, texture, durability and cost” New Scandinavian Design. Anja Llorella Oriol 2005. Architects such as Alvar Aalto and Sveere ...

When it comes to aesthetic functionalism, the value is decided completely by its practical function. (Hansson, “Aesthetic Functionalism). The functionalists would believe aesthetic value can be reduced to functionality. There are indeed discussions that in contrast, proponents of pure formalism have argued that function and aesthetic value are completely free of each other. Although, the art can be best under the category with respect to a sort of aesthetic dualism. Both formal and functional ...

Even though aesthetic judgments are as old as art, a reliable guideline on how to make any work (painting, desk, car, mobile phone) as aesthetically pleasing as possible does not exist. This is due to the fact that people’s tastes in such matters change in time according to the age or trends they witness, but also because people might like some features to be more pronounced in some objects (curved lines in cars), but less so in others (curved lines in desks). This suggests that each type of ...