Describing abstract art is a really complex task and can lead us to even more insatiable fields. Undoubtedly, it is the opposite of the figurative and of the representation of recognizable images. Now, is it really aesthetic or beautiful? Below, Hoboken, New Jersey abstract artist Charlie Steg tries to answer some of these questions. Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy, which studies the essence and perception of beauty, reflects on objects that produce emotions and that lead to value them as

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... eautiful, ugly or sublime. An aesthetic experience is the pleasure, enjoyment, feeling or pleasant emotion that aesthetic objects cause on the senses. Beauty is everything that produces an aesthetic experience in the subject. Art used to be an imitation of nature or reality. At present, we consider art as the expression of the feelings and emotions experienced by the artist, beyond his fidelity to reality and nature. The feeling that a work of art arouses is a very controversial subject, although a point has not been defined in which the feeling of beauty can be strictly objective or subjective, since it is difficult to expose what a true work of art is. Classic Beauty Criticism of the trial is a fundamental work in the history of art, written by Immanuel Kant. In this, he proposes that beauty should refer only to the form and not to the matter, thus in general beauty can be called the expression of aesthetic ideas, beauty is the expression of the form, in a beautiful object it consists of the relationship of the parts that constitute it in a space, either in nature or in the work of art and in a second moment as the expression of the aesthetic ideas that the author embodies in his work. The form in Kant is what makes the diversity of the same phenomenon can be ordered in certain relationships, thus the form of the object is what is taken into account for the judgment on beauty. Kandinsky arrives with a definition of beauty practically opposite to that of Kant, the beautiful is no longer what pleases for its form, but the [...]