![]() ![]() ![]() These attributes are therefore subconsciously perceived as beautiful in a fraction of a second today.ĭepending on the ethnic origin, there are minor differences in terms of the most preferred proportions. In the course of our evolution, the people who favored these traits were more successful. These qualities signal health, youthfulness and fertility. Harmony, proportions (golden number) and symmetry are perceived as aesthetic at first sight. Beyond this, there is an intuitive or innate universal perception of beauty. Here aesthetic and moral values are mixed, from which good taste and good behavior are derived.Īesthetic appreciation and judgment is very complex and engages multiple brain regions. The learned aesthetics refers mainly to art (poetry, novel, music, theater, painting, sculpture and architecture, clothing fashion). On the one hand, there is the individually very different perception of the beautiful, shaped by society, culture, age, experience, memory and learned things. ![]() Scientifically, two models of perception of the beautiful are distinguished. Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714-1762), a German philosopher, founded aesthetics as a study of the laws of beauty (Aesthetica, 1758).Īesthetics is the perception of beauty, elegance, grace and sensuality. The noun aesthetics comes from the Greek word “aisthesis” and means perception. ![]() Aesthetic is often colloquially equated with beautiful. ![]()
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