As a student in the art
department, Aesthetics is an important essence in our work. While I have always
understood that everything about art is based on the aesthetics. In “The
ideology of the Aesthetic”, it redefines that understanding. It talks about how
art is not involved in aesthetics because aesthetics are in fact produced by
the values of each individuals. May it be through Social, Physical or Political
values, itself influences the aesthetics each individual perceives from the
object/art, an aesthetic of its own.
Then to really understand art, we
can’t really base it on aesthetics as aesthetics along with emotions itself is
highly unpredictable like a pregnant woman going through mood swings. When an aesthetic is perceived, it is then
understood through their logical laws and values which really gives meaning to
the aesthetic we feel.
Lets take the movie, “shallow
hal” for example.
Here Gweneth Paltro plays a role
as an over weighted women who normally man sees as undesirable. But Hal a guy
got hypnotized to actually see people for what they are inside but not for
their outside appearance. Hal then see the, “truth” in Rosemary which is
beautiful while other don’t because they don’t know they real rosemary which is
not the appearance we see on the outside.
Just as it is related to art, the
aesthetics of an art can’t really be perceived for what it is without really
know the truth behind it, the history or the process that got it to become the
way it is as emotions and values are highly unpredictable and the truth behind
it will be loss.
Take this picture for example. We can’t really understand the picture unless we find out the real truth in the photographers intention of the picture. To us it may just be a little girl eating an apple. But the photographer could just as well be portraying the innocents of a girl before the tragedy of the forbidden fruit.
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