Sync Aesthetics

In Kant's third Critique, he states that aesthetic judgment gives us pleasure without our interest derives from the possible pleasures we are offered by the aesthetic object. Kant went further and distinguish the beautiful from the agreeable and the good. The agreeable is the delight that a person may possess when he finds the object agreeable , which offers him the subjective feeling that he prefers. For example, Kant says a man likes the wind instruments while someone else likes string instruments. It is not a free choice for the subject. In fact, for a person to develop the agreeable feelings toward an object, per Kant, the consideration appears to be sensuous and impure. A person who likes the instrument endorses the 'instrumentality' of the aesthetic object. The function of the instrument serves a purpose available only to one person. Let's consider another case: Tim likes chocolate ice cream, and I like taro ice cream. There is no common ground to claim the validi...

The difference between an artistic genius and a person who merely knows how to draw is the soul in each work of art. The latter shows technical skills but only soulless colored sketches while an artist exhibits both the intellect and the sensible within her pleasing arrangement of lines, colors, and shades. In this case, the artist only uses blac k and white colors, 2 very basic foundations. But as long as you look at the details of this drawing, your mind is then blown for a moment. For a moment, that hairline seems to move. Her hair seems to move. The right part of her face is covered by hair, and the hairline doesn’t come to a standstill. The left side where her hair is flying urges my imagination to contemplate the meaning of the figure by completing the opposite side. Without a visible part, my manipulated imagination works hard to fulfill the understandable concept in my mind. The "affect" is gentle, but the movement gravitated toward the collective wholeness. Now what...