Identifying Factors Affecting Aesthetics with a Focus on Awareness and Visual Literacy

Aesthetics always focuses on understanding aesthetic features. In the twentieth century, Dewey introduced aesthetics into the educational system. By creating numerous works on art and experience, he attempted to return art and aesthetic experience to the context of normal life. The present research tries to clarify the aesthetic experience by focusing on awareness and aesthetic visual literacy and find its relation with education. This study uses the analytical method, in a way that after describing key concepts, the effect of visual literacy and awareness on aesthetics has been analyzed. The results showed that in the aesthetic experience, effective and artistic factors such as emotion, expression, and imagination along with awareness and visual literacy are considered as essential components of aesthetics, which results in the completion of experience, understanding the meaning and the value in individuals. This experience leads to the stimulation of sensitivity and sympathy among individuals and leads to the optimization and understanding the relation between the natural and social world and increases ethical conduct and judgments