>>10934668There's a good basis for an anchor point when it comes to taste and the things we appreciate.
To think of it as a preference that is pulled off the aether because ??? is babbys first art essay.
Culture is collectivized psychology, Culture tells you what a group appreciates, what it values, what it decided to preserve. It is a window into the collectivized personality of a group. Art, being a cultural element, is an expression of this collective psyche.
So we establish art stems from culture, culture stems from individual psyches, and the mind stems from biology, which is built by dna, which is a blueprint that can change, but does so at an incredibly slow pace.
What does this mean? it means no matter the culture, people like shit like trees and fields and paths and streams. They are relaxing. If they're not relaxing for you then you're in the very skewed minority. There are some things that are for whatever reason appreciated on a natural level without training or conditioning, such as symmetry, geometric shapes, fractals, color patterns. It's nature in its perceived anthropocentric state. We try to capture it, we appreciate it because it nurtures us, it's no wonder we find it valuable and beautiful.
Moreover, we appreciate works in context, this is the meta-appreciation of the historical value of something or plainly how much effort and spirit was put into achieving that aesthetic ideal.
Things like these, we appreciate intuitively, across cultures, across predispositions. Only a fucking hipster looking to be a contrarian would re-wire their brain to purposefully go against it.
So there's a pattern, and confined to humans, it may as well be objective. But then again, without humans where is experience?
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