Author: Mubasher Mehdi

Abstract: The theory of aesthetic and beauty is very old. It includes taste and principles of pleasure and displeasure as well. But it is tied with the theory of arts and nature and function of art also. The beauty or appreciation of beauty, the aesthetic and its concept, is also related to the age old precepts of subjectivity and objectivity also. In even ugliness, can we see the elements of beauty? Basically beauty is pattern or structure. In most ugly creatures like lizards and cockroaches, we can trace the beauty, regarding the theory, that, pattern is in essence, the beauty. If structure and pattern is beauty, then how the sublimity is achieved, which directs the pleasure principle in watching a pattern? So, it becomes well established that an object of beauty must create attraction and appeal to the senses. Here, it could be easily discerned, that there are certain things, which are beautiful and others not beautiful. Definitely, this leads to a broader and generalized concept of beauty, which enlarges it to a theory of aesthetic, which is appreciation of beauty, and includes the effects of beauty, pertaining to pleasure or displeasure. The theory of aesthetic also includes the analysis of arts as well. As every art has an effect on senses, which lies in the paradigm of cognition and intuition, and romance in the broader sense of “Romantic”. The term “Romantic” could be well said at least about the nature of one sublime art, the poetry; whose romantic aspects create a deep impact on minds of the people. From the Romantic here is meant the poetry like of Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley and Coleridge. In other genres of literature, we can say, the novels of Hugo, as Romantic. The aesthetic and aesthetes have been attracting the people throughout the history. In defining the aesthetic, there is the interplay of taste as well. This taste phenomenon has multiple aspects. It could be from developing the inventions, to the development of culture, and recently the development of highly precision oriented weapons, though which is the more matter of business, but also a form of taste also. The “aesthetic” is also conjoined with the concept, that how it develops or grow. By this is meant that whether in a free state, it flourishes; whereby questioning individual liberty, in the ancient or modern sense, and also along with it, this becomes imperative to the modern state structure, human rights, and havoc brought by war. In this era these questions are fundamental to the appreciation of aesthetic.

Keywords: Keywords— Art, beauty, cognition, intuition, taste.