This is ‘The Starry Night’ painted by Vincent van Gogh. It is a beautiful piece of art depicting the night sky with cobalt blue. This is ‘The Mystery and Melancholy of a Street’ by Giorgio de Chirico. Chirico depicted a very realistic street in such an unrealistic composition. And this is ‘The Scream of Nature’ by Edvard Munch. He expressed a person's fear and shudder so well...
We see certain emotions in these works of art. We see beauty in ‘The Starry Night’, bleakness in ‘The Mystery and Melancholy of a Street’ and human fear in ‘The Scream of Nature’. But how do we see emotions in works of art? What is the nature of art?
Plato was Aristotle’s teacher, but they had very different ideas about art. Today’s story is the aesthetics of Plato and Aristotle.