When Mr. Allen wrote the word Aesthetics on the board in class on Monday, I had no idea what that word meant to me. The definition: the structure and rules of appreciating beauty. As I stared at the words written on the board, I realized that I never thought that there were rules about appreciating beauty. And that I never knew about this wonderful word. I was enlightened.
This made me think about how I have gone through seventeen years of my life without knowing such a thing as aesthetics. Maybe the word has come up before, somewhere in these seventeen years, but I don't remember ever using it or working with it. It makes me think about how there could be any rules to appreciating beauty? I always thought that one could find beauty in whatever they found beauty in, and that was it. It makes me wonder what the rules are.
Aesthetics hasn't really connected to my knowledge until we went through Sophie's World and picked out quotes and phrases that- I guess- represented the rules of appreciating beauty. So, because I have never heard of this word until now, that is the only thing that I can connect to my knowledge.
Once again, aesthetics doesn't really connect to me beliefs because I believe that there aren't any rules to appreciating beauty.
I am really glad that I've learned this word because now I can see the books I read, the paintings I look at, the music I listen to and everything else I happen to stumble upon in my life, in a different, more artistic way. Aesthetics has opened my eyes to the world around me.
I really love what you have said here, but I must disagree on one key point: I think we ARE taught aesthetics, though we don't label it as such. In elementary and middle school we were taught about line, shape, color, and flow, as well as how to make pictures that are beautiful. The basic rules that we learned then, we refine and add to as we come to understand more art, but certainly we were taught the foundation of aesthetics.
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