Difference Between Aesthetics And Aesthetics

Does it make sense to think of art, or aesthetic preference as a function of the brain?

It is widely accepted that visual aesthetics, the ability of assigning different degrees of beauty to certain forms, colours, or movements, is a human trait acquired after the divergence of human and other ape lineages (Cela-Conde et al., 2004). Every human culture likes art, and is probably particular to our species. So what is it about our particular species that enables us to be interested in the aesthetics of the world? Could the answer reside in our brains? Although the human brain has the same general structure as the brains of other mammals, it has developed a much larger cerebral cortex. What is it in the human brain that might trigger aesthetic experiences? Neuro-aesthetics is a relatively recent sub discipline of empirical aesthetics which aims to answer these questions. Neuro-aesthetics received its formal definition in 2002 as the ‘scientific study of the neural bases for the contemplation and creation of a work of art’. This emerging discipline is dedicated to exploring the neural processes underlying our appreciation and production of artwork, experiences that include perception, interpretation, emotion, and action

Chatterjee (2010) defines aesthetics as ‘the term used to broadly encompass the perception, production and response to art, as well as interactions with objects and scenes which evoke an intense feeling, often of pleasure’. However many critics probably disagree with this definition. It is equally as difficult to define what makes art art. This makes the problem of art and aesthetic experiences difficult to discuss and examine. We have no resolution to this problem but it is an issue which should always be considered when discussing art and aesthetic