every wonder why we find things more aethetically pleasing compared to another? I think like how certain body shape givse a sign of health, this extended to other things like food anod other animals. The shape it gives combined with past memories of other objects from the past ,then translated into a very complex language such as gut feeling. We then sum up those feelings into a word. Is'nt it rather odd that the aesthetics of your surroundings can determine a mood? It it not peculiar that we have different aesthetic tastes for how we dress, the kinds of music we listen? Paintings and poetry? a byproduct from a primal instinct for survival and reproduction?
I recommend reading Avant-Gardde and Kitsch by Clement Greenburg. It is a bit dated and has even been refuted by Greenburg himself to an extent, but it's interesting none the less if you can read it that is. It is an argument on media specificity and how artists manipulate their respective media according to certain properties of the media in order to create aesthetics. If we look at reality as the most perfectly transparent media, then we can see how aesthetics are as we perceive them in reality as well as through other less transparent media. Greenberg: Avant-Gardde and Kitsch Media transparency - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I always thought my life path impacted the aesthetics, like my experiences and how said experiences impacted the journey. I look at things now like woah and 10 years ago I probably wouldn't have even looked at the same thing for more than four seconds.
