aesthetic ideals
Artistic beauty principles
Aesthetic ideals are standards of beauty that a culture, era, or individual holds as most desirable.
These ideals shape judgments about art, design, and physical appearance: Renaissance aesthetic ideals favored fuller figures.
The phrase often appears in discussions of how beauty standards shift over time or vary across cultures, and how they influence everything from fashion to architecture to body image.
- symmetryInvariance under transformation
- graceEffortless beauty of motion
- beautyAesthetic excellence
- inner beautyAttractiveness of character
- curveSmooth, angleless line
harmony · clean lines · beauty standards · proportion · visual balance · classicism · tradition · sublime · symbolism · good taste · Apollonian · timeless elegance · composition · idealism · humanism · artistic vision · transcendence · wabi-sabi
- beauty termsmatte, dewy, hydrating, moisturizing, smoothing
- RomanticismWilliam Blake, the sublime, J.M.W. Turner, Eugene Delacroix, emotionalism
- French RomanticismVictor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, George Sand, Balzac, romantic hero
aesthetic idealscost-effectiveness
Value relative to expenditure
utility · practicality · efficiency standards · functionality · commercial interests
aesthetic idealsvulgarity
Offensive coarseness in manner
philistinism · tastelessness · kitsch · barbarism · crudeness