{"id":200828,"date":"2020-01-02T02:23:08","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T10:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=200828"},"modified":"2020-01-02T02:26:25","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T10:26:25","slug":"aesthetics-the-philosophy-of-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/02\/aesthetics-the-philosophy-of-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Aesthetics: The Philosophy of Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As photographer-artists, it all comes down to aesthetics (the philosophy of beauty):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>For example, I am HIGHLY selective and HIGHLY picky about what I consider beautiful. Perhaps this is the root of my love and passion for art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thought:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The artist as an aesthetically-picky person?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Become beautiful and create beautiful things<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, my personal bodily aesthetics are supremely important to me. Much of my &#8216;body-building&#8217; comes from the notion of me wanting to build my body into a monument I deem beautiful (more muscle mass, less body fat).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, my drive as an artist:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>My desire to create beautiful art-works (photos).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Aesthetics as personal taste<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>What is good or bad taste? There is none. It just comes down to your personal philosophy, personal aesthetics, and personal beliefs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As photographer-artists, it all comes down to aesthetics (the philosophy of beauty):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":200799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/eric-kim-photography-la-los-angeles-2019-ricoh-gr-iii-21mm-48-2000x1333-hand-rolex-ring-deadlift-callus-.jpeg?fit=2000%2C1333&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200828"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200835,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200828\/revisions\/200835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}