ART AND AESTHETICS: PATHWAYS AND REFLECTIONS

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.558322222128

• Palavras-chave: Aesthetics; Art; Philosophy of Art.

• Keywords: Aesthetics; Art; Philosophy of Art.

• Abstract:

  The interest of this study is to present the movements that occurred in art, mainly on aesthetics. Its main objective is to reflect on the theory of aesthetics and its trajectory, mainly from the 18th century to the present day. To reach the objective of this study, the methodological procedures used are based on surveys of information through books on the subject, institutions in the area and bibliographic research. The result reveals that art, the object of aesthetics, has its origins in Prehistory, but the first reflections that gave rise to what we know as aesthetics date back to Ancient Greece. However, it was only in the 18th century that aesthetics acquired autonomy as a philosophical area. We can say that the consolidation of aesthetics established by Alexander Baumgarten as a philosophical discipline was a great advance for philosophy. Although, these were moments marked by profound changes in the social, political and economic scope in this new era of bourgeois dominance, as well as in the scope of knowledge, in which aesthetics, in all its precepts, can be considered a precondition for humanity to can go towards freedom.