Presented at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities.

1. Beauty vs.
Artistic Beauty
Crystal Li-chin Huang

2. What is Beauty?
Object vs. Subjective Accounts
The enterprise of aesthetic judgment is highly complicated.
This presentation attempts to differentiate the major differences
between the concept of “beauty” and “artistic beauty” .
Several perspectives from philosophers, aestheticians, and
social thinkers were introduced via different work of arts
representing the evolvement of aesthetic and judgments. The
major two categories: The objective accounts and subjective
accounts can be seen that the beautiful qualities are objectively
presented in the things they appear to the qualifications; and the
Subjective account is perceived whether the beautiful qualities
exist in the mind of the individual.

3. Psychological/ Ideological/Moral
Cognitive dimension dimension
Pragmatism/Functionalism
Mimetic or Organicism
imitationalism Theories of
Philosophy of Art
Expressionism
Formalism
Ephemeralism Emotionalism
work of Aesthetics
art of Visual Attender/
Arts Viewer
What is
Intentional
Objective Artistic Subjective
Account of Beauty? Account of
Beauty Beauty
Socio-Cultural Econo-Political
dimension dimension

4. Different Lenses of Aesthetics
• Imitationalism/
Representationalism
• Expressionism
• Emotionalism
• Formalism
• Organicism
• Pragmatism/Functionalism
• Ephemeralism

5. Example:Visual Evolution- From Religion to Capitalism

6. Poli-economic Perspective

7. Socio-cultural Perspective

8. Ideological/Moral Perspective

9. Psychological/Cognitive Perspective
Examples: Organic and bureaucratic tic society

10. Psychological/Cognitive Perspective E.g. #2
Gender in Context

11. Psychological/Cognitive Perspective-
What do you see?

12. A picture is
worth
thousand
words!

13. Conclusion
In this poster presentation, the
subjective accounts of beauty refer
to the particular artistic endeavors,
progressing from retinal toward
cerebral aesthetic experience and
judgments, and tend to be highly
contextualized.