I have been looking at a book about aesthetics, It is about contemporary meanings of the term 'aesthetic' and 'aesthetics' gathered in North America, Europe and Japan from usage in conversations, in the Media and in critical literature primarily in the fields of art and design criticism, history, philosophy and anthropology. These are 'natural meanings'. That is these are the the ways people actually use the terms today.
Reading this book gave me a better understanding of what aesthetics actually are. There are many different definitions but the main idea is basically to do with appearance and beauty. Depending on what you are looking at depends on what kind of beauty the aesthetic describes.
1 Beauty of the body
2 Beauty in the terms of pureness and goodness.
3 Appearance of the way things look on the surface.
These are the ones that are the most relevant to my project as nature and landscapes evoke a sense of beauty. The only one that is not particularly useful is beautification as this is talking about people and how they appear. There will not be people specifically in my videos unless there by accident.
Another aesthetic is cognitive mode based on emotions, I would like to try and use this in my videos in the hope that they can inspire emotion in the people watching. Something like happiness or even fear that nature is being extinguished due to the fact that nature is being overtaken by man.
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