All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
I studied aesthetics by reading and having my students explore it in their projects—sometimes to their chagrin! During this investigation, I read Dr. Anjan Chatterjee’s book, The Aesthetic Brain . My favorite part was when he confronted something that always bothered me: the notion of beauty being in the “eye of the beholder.”
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Judith Schaechter • An Artist’s Immersion Into Neuroaesthetics
If you want to know if something is funny, see if it makes you laugh. If you want to know if a painting is beautiful, see if it evokes an equivalent response, one as definite as laughter though usually quieter and shyer to emerge. I step up to a landscape painting called Vétheuil in Summer, close enough that it swallows my field of vision. I find t
... See morePatrick Bringley • All the Beauty in the World
Marveling at the perfection of that leaf, I was reminded that aesthetic beauty is as much about how and whether you look as what you see. From the quark to the supernova, the wonders do not cease. It is our attentiveness that is in short supply, our ability and willingness to do the work that awe requires.
John Green • The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
