The emotions and thoughts of a viewer add to the overall experience of viewing an artwork. What is this experience called?
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Aesthetic experience
The aesthetic experience is qualitatively more akin to exceptional states of mind rather than everyday experience. This experience includes high arousal, fascination and attention with the aesthetic, high cognitive engagement with the aesthetics’ symbolic reality, and the intense feeling of wholeness with the object of attraction and appraisal.
The aesthetic experience starts with the viewer’s global impression and proceeds with directed focal exploration of the image,
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