Baduy

 

Hasta da iton aja da mag drowing drowing hampan arang baja kamahal! When you hear these words from unappreciative people (especially on art), you sometimes wish to shrink on your seat.

Aesthetic experience concerns the appreciation of aesthetic objects and the resulting pleasure. Such pleasure is not derived from the utilitarian properties of the objects but linked to the intrinsic qualities of the aesthetic objects themselves.

The mind and psychological well-being is linked to art appreciation. There are those who cannot see the beauty in it, but the appreciative brain will then get the “experience” of being touched by the object seen and subjected to the different senses.

Recent studies suggest the arts can promote health and psychological well-being and offer a therapeutic tool for many, e.g., adolescents, elderly, and vulnerable individuals (Daykin et al., 2008; Todd et al., 2017; Thomson et al., 2018). Aesthetic experience has been associated with mindfulness meditation, as it leads to enhancing the capability of perceptually engaging with an object (Harrison and Clark, 2016).

To appreciate or “feel” art, one needs to have sophisticated cultural knowledge.

We remember people who say: Do not be with these friends, “they are uncultured!” They are simply underscoring the fact that such friends lack finesse. There seems to be a gap on manners, etiquette and some sort-of socially accepted movements among these persons.

Art is about the sensory experience; it connects the bridge between thoughts, feelings, emotions with movement. The best part about art, or rather the psychology of it is that you don’t have to be an artist to truly appreciate what art has to offer (Reynolds, 2020).

So, those who dismiss works of art are either unappreciative of the time and skills poured out to finish the piece or dismiss art/artists as nonsense might be lacking the needed cultural knowledge… or they’re simply un-aesthetic.

If they dust off the work of art, we let them dwell on their ignorance. Anyway, most of them are being talked behind their back on their bad manners (like eating) and how they dress up!