Art can be anything. Art is things or people or anything we find beautiful or of value. We give things artistic value. Art can be nature, it can be man-made, art can literally be anything. This does NOT mean that everything is art. Art CAN be anything, yet not everything is art. We decide what holds artistic value.
Aesthetics is the pleasurable visual features of something. You could also say that aesthetics is something’s sensible beauty. We sense aesthetics and we enjoy them. Aesthetics doesn’t have anything to do with ethical beauty.
Beauty is something that is beautiful. There are different types of beauty, sensible and ethical. Both are valuable and beautiful and they are connected in odd ways. Something may have sensible beauty purely because of it’s ethical beauty. It’s ethical beauty is so grand that no matter what it looked like, it would have sensible beauty. Sensible beauty can be a blockade towards gaining ethical beauty when it comes to people because while it isn’t always true, sensible beauty in the world of 2020 values can get you a far way even when you have no ethical beauty.
Sensible beauty is beauty we sense with our senses, sight, smell, etc.
Ethical beauty is beauty from inner morals or thoughts, etc.
Plato thought beauty was objective and had nothing to do with the perception of anyone viewing the beauty. Things held beauty simply because they had beauty and no matter how anyone saw it, it still had that beauty.
Aristotle thought beauty was found in action and stillness. He thought there was beauty within our actions such as reading, writing, and drawing. His idea of beauty was all about the perceiver, or the person performing the beauty.
Kant thought that beauty was entirely through sense and had nothing to do with emotion towards the object in question. He thought beauty was a feeling, we had to feel that something had beauty, it could not just be an objective feature of an object.
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