I've said it before in a different way. For me, an aesthetic
experience or feeling has nothing to do with pleasure or
displeasure, but just uniqueness. I think all art is based on
trying to be unique,,,when a new individual experience is
born. A perception that takes you into the unexpected,
with words, sounds, colors, forms, ideas, etc.
I also agree,and always believed that aesthetics is the
domain of individual human brain, with little interest in
reaching consensus giving identity to the experience.
The unique unknown.
mando
On Feb 28, 2009, at 5:40 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Mando writes:
Cheerskep,
Simply put, i find the aesthetic experience happens when
our individual recollected memory is unconsciously
modified by what we sense anew. It happen everyday,
Capturing it in art, is easier in quick sketches, in one's
medium, be it music,poetry, painting, sculpture etc..
I'm not sure what you have in mind with "sense anew" or
"unconsciously",
Mando. Let's say a woman's husband dies. She grieves, but with time
the grief
lessens. Then one day she discovers in her husband's closet an
unopened box.
She
opens it and finds a dozen sets of new underwear and socks. She
says, aloud,
"Well, I guess he won't be needing them now," and she bursts into
tears. Was,
by
you, anything sensed anew there? You would call it an "aesthetic
experience"?
You would say, "It IS an aesthetic experience."?
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