Modele du Processus d'Experience Esthetique

My intention in this article is to clarify the concept of aesthetic experience. It offers a definition and presentation of the stages required to actualize this phenomenon. To begin with, we will examine the various conceptions of aesthetic experience, through the best known authors in the area of aesthetics. Through the analysis of these conceptions, we will build the foundation of an aesthetic experience model. This will enable us to better understand what occurs within individuals when they have an aesthetic experience. Thus, it will illustrate the stages required to carry out this process and the behaviors in which it is manifest. Ultimately, the aim is to develop a tool with which to evaluate clearly the degree of realization of the aesthetic experience in subjects, within the educational framework of aesthetic sensitivity. Therefore, we will review the literature by grouping the various conceptions of aesthetic experience of authors who have influenced the area of aesthetics the most in the last ten years, with recourse to secondary and even tertiary sources. This is a synthesis of a subject that is extremely vague and difficult to organize. In fact, there presently exists a multitude of aesthetic theories which emerged in Europe since the 18th century, a time in which we began to consider aesthetics as a separate discipline. The authors studied here are for the most part American authors because of their proximity to us and to our North American lifestyle