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International Congress of Aesthetics 2007
“Aesthetics Bridging Cultures”
Aesthetic Understanding through Visual
Culture
Alpaslan UÇAR, RA,Turkey
Recent developments in art education, starting from John Dewey`s conception of art
experience in a theoretical framework, have tried to clarifiy interpretation and understanding
of art and visual culture created by today`s mass media. Visual culture is in reality simply
what is seen. Therefore, what we see mainly depends on what there is to see: how objects or
concepts are being received and/or manipulated in an aesthetic understanding as well as in the
imagination. Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy that mainly explains the nature and value of
art experiences. It aims to identify the clues within works that can be used to understand,
judge, and defend judgments about these works.
Aesthetic understanding is concerned with issues in education, philosophical aesthetics and
art criticism at all institutional levels. In addition, it clarifies an understanding of the aesthetic
importance of the new communications, media and environmental aesthetics we face.
Aesthetic understanding is in a sense a vehicle not only to educators, but also to philosophers,
art critics and art historians.
Thus, visual images are all around and our understanding of these images is deepened by
using visual culture. Therefore, students could easily pick up the aesthetic images they need
and perceive their environment wisely for use in their art work. Now that visual culture is
expanding so quickly and changing so rapidly, students should be informed and directed by
the instructor to realize the differences good or bad and use these selected images correctly
while making art or expressing themselves.
Introduction
We face a shift from text-based communication to image saturation today. This shift is also
dramatically reflected in the field of art education today. We need to investigate these changes
from a contemporary and postmodern perspective to understand the changing forms of art
brought about by new technologies. It is important to become open to the new conceptions
about the nature of art. If we say that art education is responsible and open to new notions and
events around us, then we should reconsider the bases of our teaching understanding. It is
essential to emphasize the perspectives of visual culture in art education, purposes, methods
of art education and the prospect of a new orthodoxy. Art education differs from established
approaches to understand the arts.
In order to be aware of the visual culture and its powerful impact, creative individuals need to
develop personal enquiries on the basic practises. In a sense, creative solutions and
