Living with Art

Living with art is to let it engage our attention, imagination, and intelligence. By that, we as an audience convert our attention/creativity into a matter of thought and enjoyment. In other words, living with art lets it and its ideas live through our imagination in a specific time and space. 

From paintings, sculptures, and photography to building structures seen on streets, people most likely live with art more than they think. If you pause for a second to enjoy or appreciate any feeling(s) that arise from experiencing any form of art, then you are living through what artists have prepared for you to feel or understand their message through the creation they made. And we call such an emotional experience an aesthetic experience.

Aesthetics 

“A set of principles underlying and guiding the work of a particular artist or artistic movement”

- Oxford Dictionary

Aesthetics is an acknowledgment of a particular notion and emotions of people that come from interacting with a form of art through their sensory experiences - sights, hearing, taste, touch, and smell. An artist’s goal is to create unique artwork delicately designed to influence their audience to feel or receive a specific message/idea from the artist.