Catttt Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary
breath in
Do you have any idea how aesthetic might have relationships with "breathing in" and "gasping"? Breathing in might have relations because of the phenomenon of absorbing external things and sending them inside. But how about gasping?
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In art, our inclination to top-down impositioning can be exploited to great effect. Semir Zeki believes that particularly compelling are those artworks which contain only vague clues and perhaps especially those which are actually incomplete because they require the viewer to work hard, offering ‘in a sense, a neurological trick, endowing the brain with greater imaginative powers’. Indeed, the solving of a perceptual conundrum brings its own reward, and we experience what feels like a little stab of pleasure when we unscramble a confusing image to make sense of it, the internal top-down/bottom-up synthesis involved in visualisation making direct links to the limbic system, the brain regions concerned with physical processes, emotions and memories. The root meaning of ‘aesthetic’ in early Greek is‘I breathe in’, ‘I gasp’ and it acknowledges this frisson of emotion.
Context:
In art, our inclination to top-down impositioning can be exploited to great effect. Semir Zeki believes that particularly compelling are those artworks which contain only vague clues and perhaps especially those which are actually incomplete because they require the viewer to work hard, offering ‘in a sense, a neurological trick, endowing the brain with greater imaginative powers’. Indeed, the solving of a perceptual conundrum brings its own reward, and we experience what feels like a little stab of pleasure when we unscramble a confusing image to make sense of it, the internal top-down/bottom-up synthesis involved in visualisation making direct links to the limbic system, the brain regions concerned with physical processes, emotions and memories. The root meaning of ‘aesthetic’ in early Greek is‘I breathe in’, ‘I gasp’ and it acknowledges this frisson of emotion.
Top answer
We gasp (take in a sharp, quick breath) when we are startled, shocked, surprised, frightened, amazed, horrified, in awe, etc. We gasp as part of an emotional response to something. " We often react to art emotionally.
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We gasp (take in a sharp, quick breath) when we are startled, shocked, surprised, frightened, amazed, horrified, in awe, etc. We gasp as part of an emotional response to something. The word "aesthetic" is derived from the Greek language meaning "I breathe in" or "I gasp." We often react to art emotionally.
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So, in this context gasping means something like what is seen in the second half of this video:
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red appleDoes "I" in "I breathe in" and "I gasp" have really a clear representative in the word "aesthetic"? I mean does it mean exactly "I breathe in" and not generally "breathing in"?I think the author is improvising.
From Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Origin of aesthetic - German ästhetisch, from New Lati
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