Pragmatic information of aesthetic appraisal

Aesthetics is, according to Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714 - 1762), the science of beauty (Baumgarten, 1750). Putting it more scientifically, aesthetics is the science of critical judgement of the beautiful (Nake, 1974). Therefore, aesthetics is also the science of critical judgement of the ugly as the opposite of the beautiful (Stangneth, 2019). In these latter senses, aesthetics is part of aesthesiology as the science of perception in general, and of the reception of art in particular (Consoli, 2020; Tedesco, 2024), thus overlapping with psychology and the human cognitive neurosciences (Fechner, 1876; Frascaroli et al, 2024; Pearce et al, 2016). For the judgment of an object or event as being beautiful, abstract features, such as regularity, symmetry or orderliness are often invoked (Weyl, 1980).