aesthetic ideal
Perfection in appearance
An aesthetic ideal is a standard of beauty or artistic perfection that serves as a model or goal.
Different cultures and eras have had different aesthetic ideals—the classical Greek ideal of balanced proportions, the Renaissance ideal of harmonious composition, or contemporary ideals of minimalism.
Her work challenges conventional aesthetic ideals.
The term appears in philosophy, art criticism, and discussions of cultural standards of attractiveness.
- beautyAesthetic excellence
- harmonyAgreement or musical blend
- visual harmonyBalanced, pleasing arrangement
- compositionArranged elements forming whole
- fine artAesthetic visual creations
style · good taste · tradition · high art · sublime · perception · eye of the beholder · design · pure form · taste · technique · transcendence · art for art's sake · form · balance · perfection · symmetry · golden ratio
- Beauty Idealsgolden ratio, perfect form, beauty standard, perfection, symmetry
aesthetic idealugliness
Displeasing appearance quality
hideousness · grotesquerie · eyesore · monstrosity · deformity
aesthetic idealmediocrity
Quality of being average
lowest common denominator · baseline · ordinariness · banality · imperfection
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