aestheticsnoun [ U ]
US also esthetics uk/esˈθet.ɪks/us/esˈθet̬.ɪks/the formal study of art, especially in relation to the idea of beauty
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Art history & artistic movements
- abstract
- art nouveau
- baroque
- classicism
- cubism
- impressionist
- mannerism
- minimalist
- modernism
- modernist
- pointillism
- pop art
- portraiture
- postmodern
- postmodernism
- screen printing
- silkscreen
- still life
- structuralism
- surrealism
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Examples from literature
- Differences in politics, in ethics and even in aesthetics need not arouse angry antagonism.
- The discovery of the beauty of nature, and with it the revival of aesthetics, was an essential part of the new-born civilisation.
- Their taste is rather the outcome of a desire to please others than of a sense of aesthetics.
- These remarks are illustrated in the aesthetics of landscape gardening.
- We may all agree about aesthetics, and yet differ about particular works of art.