#aesthetics — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #aesthetics, aggregated by home.social.
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From the studio: acrylic on board, 62 x 80cm, 2026
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Show coming / going this week+ • #Art #Psychology #aesthetics
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From the studio: acrylic and collage on cartridge, including fabric, 21 x 30cm, 2026
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I built an aesthetically pleasing puzzle
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568162
#HackerNews #aesthetics #puzzle #design #jigsaw #creativity #art
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A quote from Kiyosi Itô, mathematician and 1998 Kyoto laureate, born #OnThisDay in in 1915:
‘In precisely built mathematical structures, mathematicians find the same sort of beauty others find in enchanting pieces of music, or in magnificent architecture.’
— Itô, 'My Sixty Years along the Path of Probability Theory'. 1998 Kyoto Prize lecture abstract [https://www.kyotoprize.org/en/speech/the-1998-kyoto-prize/]
(One of innumerable testimonies indicating that the subjective experience of #MathematicalBeauty parallels that of visual or auditory beauty.)
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From the studio: acrylic on board, 43 x 42.5cm, 2026
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From the studio: acrylic and collage on cartridge, including fabric, 21 x 30cm, 2026
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From the studio: acrylic on board, 86 x 21.5cm and 61.x 22cm, 2026
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In his essay ‘The Phenomenology of Mathematical Beauty’, Gian-Carlo Rota said Morley's theorem was surprising but not beautiful. (He was arguing against the claim that beauty depended on unexpectedness, which was how he (perhaps not quite accurately) interpreted G.H. Hardy.)
But every other aesthetic judgement of Morley's theorem that I know of says that it is beautiful:
• ‘[in] a beauty contest involving geometrical theorems [...] one of the chief contenders would be Morley’s Triangle Theorem’ — Bankoff
• ‘[a] gorgeous result’ — Chamberland
• ‘startling, difficult to prove, and utterly beautiful’ — Dunham
• ‘Morley's beautiful theorem’ — Gardner
• ‘absolutely stunning and beautiful’ — Hofstadter
• ‘for sheer beauty it has few rivals’ — Oakley & Baker(I agree that it is a beautiful result.)
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From the studio: acrylic on board, 24 x 30cm, 2026
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🤔💻 "Highlighting my #code based on how much I care"—because nothing screams #productivity like obsessively #tweaking colors until your #burnout looks aesthetically pleasing in grayscale. 🎨🖥️ Instead of solving real problems, let's muse on making our #code look like a #moody black-and-white photograph that no one asked for. 🙄
https://hank.bond/posts/highlighting-my-code-based-on-how-much-i-care/ #aesthetics #color #HackerNews #ngated -
From the studio: acrylic on board, 46 x 77cm, 2026
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From the studio: acrylic on cartridge, 21 x 30cm, 2026
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“The unfinished Dewberry project has been a scar on downtown for far too long” #cville #Dewberry #DowntownMall #aesthetics http://www.charlottesville.gov/m/newsflash/Home/Detail/2664
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From the studio: acrylic on board, diptych, 2 x 30 x 21, 2026
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From the studio: acrylic and fabric on board, 25 x 67cm
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@beyondmachines1 OMG HACKERMAN! I had almost forgotten about THE MASTERPIECE:
#humor #kungfury #retro #synth #synthwave #retrowave #aesthetics
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From the studio: acrylic on cartridge, incl. collage, 21 x 30cm, 2026
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Will the hate against AI generated content make people dislike generative music and art in general? What is the difference? #AI #art #music #aesthetics
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@Remittancegirl @JeanieBurrell
I absolutely recognise what you are saying. Producing useful things, skillfully with well-chosen means, comes with an aesthetics all of its own, and there is no need to call the result beautiful.
For me personally, "beauty" is a concept I could not do without. I guess I use it as a shortfhand for a complicated bundle of resonances that make a thing important and valid. For instance, in my own academic work (not art-related at all), when I write a piece I will never release it until I can look at it and say to it "oh, you are beautiful".
A long time ago I spent time on the theory of aesthetics, including Friedrich Schiller's famous essay. I'd have to revisit the texts to refresh the ideas, but my own naive summary is that "beauty" occurs when I see a thing as what it is.
I love the potterty pieces you show in your posts, and to myself I'd call them beautiful. I have no reason or right or wish to make you use the word! :-)
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Illustration by Christian von Mechel, from Stufe vom Frosch zum Apoll (ca. 1785).
Source: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/22c7c090-48de-4d9a-86b5-6f146803c18a
#apollo #portraiture #portraits #morphing #sequential #aesthetics #physiognomy #painting #drawing #art #publicdomain
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From the studio: acrylic and collage on cartridge, 21 x 30cm, 2026