HUMAN Aesthetics: Art philosophy and theory writing by SO YOUN KIM FRSA
HUMAN Aesthetics
SO YOUN KIM FRSA
The human aesthetic has foundational elements:
- Physiological pleasure right at sight
- Subsequent healing moment of human fatigue from everyday life escape
- Triggered mindset of explaining verbally and orally the marvelous impressions
- A sense of ownership to make it only private to me
- Attempt to continue to feel and find similar pleasures in different locations and work, seeking more pleasures
This is an episode I obtained when I saw a renaissance painting at the National Gallery of Canada. First, I felt pleasure intuitively and sensibly at the painting which satisfies my visual happiness. Then, I felt healed from the everyday mundane life that was tedious and boring but financially rewarding with revival and continuation of daily routine to uptight. Then, I became motivated to explain and express my visual pleasure in a descriptive and comprehensive way, which is sharing of experience I had find pleasure with others to find the pleasure of sharing my timely practice of appreciating a beautiful piece of work in front me; then I desire to own it so that I can myself only available to this private work; there are more steps of visual pleasure experience for sure but after I aim to find similar work that inspire me to make one for myself or appreciating similar types of pleasure, in different locations and seeking more pleasures in different opportunities. This is seemingly like having an interest in certain things, falling into it and then seeking different thing at the end so that there are actually more than a number of paintings I can equally and similarly appreciate that visual pleasure.
The physicality and sensuality
The apex of human pleasure comes from the physical interaction by touch and sensuality that one feels through interaction with emotions, pensees, and flashback from the memory of similar sentiment one feels from one’s experience in the past; sensuality and physicality of artwork comes from how visually strong the art conveys its not only ideas but also visual components, which are textually explained and classified as figures, frames, compositions, symbols, lines, strokes, marks and others. The sensuality comes from all included in our visual pleasure; it mesmerized into the ambience and airy surrounding happiness we feel at the sight of the artwork we see and feel touched; contemporary art is also conveying the social messages with certain gestures of minimalist styles and abstract expressionism; but right kind of human nature feeling sentiments come from how we are like in that picture; in this way, abstract expressionism painting is devoid of human remnants in its surface and this is what we have to reflect back and forgive ourselves of decaying pleasure of right kind we use to feel from classical art and architecture in our civilization time. It takes enormous time for people to create the style of masters and to be efficient and effective and commercialized, we change our method to be simple for popularism and mass production to the extent of consumption and human society devoid of substance of quality but numbers and statistics of scientific mass.
Portfolio: WORK Compilation by SO YOUN KIM FRSA
Philosophical Optics on the Humanity
International Affairs and Art: Speculation on the Visual Culture
Manifesto
Innovation from Prada: From creativity from her talent and intellect from her academic education
Useful work experience as a rail road worker; deepened understanding of supply chain with Zara’s success and innovation
Same can inside different material: Andy Warhol’s choice of Tomato soup over Caviar and the implications of the art scene after
Redefining the luxury: AMAZON’s quality proven products impressing global audience from customer view
Different drama and aged in two geniuses of Mozart and Beethoven and their two different classical music style
Transcending academic Alvin Toffler: lesson of business from factory worker experience
Art teaching
Art Course – Abstract Painting 2025 WINTER
Instructor: SO YOUN KIM
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Course description: the course is designed to learn abstract expression paintings based on imaginative insights from reading philosophical texts; students are expected to explain the inspirations they get from texts to express themselves into the form of abstract paintings, which comprise of design, color, line and shapes. Everyone regardless of experience level is welcome.
Learning outcome: as a result of taking this course, students will:
- Learn how the principles and elements of design can enhance their current artistic practice
- Understand how reading texts aid in their inspirations and creativity for making paintings of abstract style
- Apply different techniques and mediums to make their paintings more interesting in a freestyle
- Discover their styles at a time
Course format: each class will begin students who bring their own texts in a paper copy and create paintings based on their insights and inspirations in an imaginative way; after paint making, we will have critique and share their experiences and perspectives with descriptions as well as discussion of new techniques learned.
Course schedule:
| Week | Topic | Texts |
| 1 | Focus: read the text and describe it into art | Class given: John Ruskin paragraph 1 |
| 2 | Focus: read the text and imagine of the ideas into art | Class given: John Ruskin paragraph 2 |
| 3 | Focus: read the text and paint the inspirational energy into art | Class given: Roger Fry paragraph 1 |
| 4 | Focus: learn techniques of abstraction | Class given: Roger Fry paragraph 2 |
| 5 | Focus: read the text and think of critique of text into art | Student choice of text 1 |
| 6 | Focus: think of colors in art making text | Student choice of text 2 |
| 7 | Focus: think of lines in art making text | Student choice of text 3 |
| 8 | Focus: think of shapes in art making text | Social science text 1 |
| 9 | Focus: think of textures in art making text | Humanities text 1 |
| 10 | Focus: think of everything in art making text | Final critique |
| Conclusion | Apply everything from the past weeks into art making | Learning experience sharing and summing up |
Selected resources:
John Ruskin text: Selected Writings
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/15200/15200-h/15200-h.htm
Roger Fry text: Vision and Designs
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/54154/54154-h/54154-h.htm
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsch
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1998
Class Evaluation:
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Incremental weather:
If the class is cancelled due to weather, it will be posted on the school website; in case of hazardous weather, we may also decide to cancel the class. https://www.artottawa.ca/