Aesthetic is pertaining to a sense of the beauty, but how can we judge what is aesthetic and what is not if it depends on people thought and feelings. Aesthetics in the past people judged by following the majority opinion, so it become a trend and everyone thought that it’s beautiful. If something is different from others then it not, this is what people in the past think and also nowadays people do. In the class Aj.Taylor showed us the photo of Miss Korea that everyone looks like they’re all twins. It made us know that in Korea they thought that if have face like this is it is beautiful. From this public idea that judge about aesthetics it made me think about the movie called “Mean Girls” that there is a girl gang in school that they think they’re pretty and the perfect girl in school. When new student move in, she wants to be friend with this group so she have to change herself to be like one of them. She has to dress like them, make up and speak like them. So this is like what social effect to people perception about aesthetic.
In modernism people thought that the glass box building is aesthetics like we can see from “Play time” movie last year showed by Aj.Taylor. People in that period dress in dull tone because they are told that it is beautiful and they don’t have anything to compare with. But after people are getting bored of this plain and simple thing so they change into what is contrast. And it will be like this again and again follow what people in that period interest. So what is the true aesthetic? I think we can’t conclude the style because it is dynamic, it changes all the time like trend.
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