They Playing In Yo Face: Aesthete Vs Artist

The realities for all the ways survival competition is created out of a tangle of false impressions, false equivalents and mishandling.

(im not editing this first version. I’m just hitting send.)

Artists create things. Aesthetes curate things. That’s really too simple a statement and probably shouldn’t ever be quoted as bible, but it’s how the ice is breaking, fasho. There is such thing as being both. Doing the most and not the lesser, I want to read deeper into the differences between aesthetics and art. Literally, I want this reading to build a sense for how a false impression of either of those two realities could color survival. It’s important to read the room as we’re coming across one another in the pole industry and being presented with: approaches, guidance, responses or opportunity offers that result, for the most part, in a visual and human encounters that contours how we exist.

My earth sign Venus and Moon (Taurus gang) are reading—as provocation—what the tangible outcomes of aesthetics versus artistry amount to. The conflation of the two as synonymous is dull as fuck, where as seeing the polarity allows for pointed transformation in how one acts. Their difference isn’t rooted in which is better. Not being blind to the paradox though, questions the illusion of competition that tends to produce injury and mistaken choices along with the discourse that retells it. It is, my goal with this reading to see how you call it, if you can. For those that care about the impact of marketing being deceptive or not (regardless the intention), I want you to be able to call out snake oil and act according to conviction not crowding. Let’s get into it:

Aesthetes

Aesthetes put aesthetics—sensory experience of feelings and perceptions—in the front and center of an output. An aesthetic output being a curation/creation of appreciation, taste and value within the human experience. There is a pursuit toward creating an intended perception and judging the ability to refine the appreciation of a sensory experience. Whether this experience is a natural occurrence or human-made object or activity(ies), aesthetics are a pursuit toward a sensory form (whatever that may be). The forms already exist and what aesthetics does is see the patterns in the existing formations and connects them to the core of a set of beliefs. An aesthete realizes a taste level, if you will, of personal or societal value that represents worthiness, goodness or beauty.

Case In Point: The Femme Muse ( An Aesthete)

Talking about what differentiates aesthetes from artists, I brought up an aesthete who I respect from afar ( The Femme Muse). The respect is there not because I agree with The Femme Muse’s direction, curation or guidance, sensibilities (I don’t agree); the respect is there because The Femme Muse stands ten toes down on the convictions around what it means (to them) for curating a life of goodness and beauty and substance. Through all channels there is an aesthetic belief that is rooted in a desire of being presented a specific way and all ones choices should align with that. The outcomes of these aesthetic sensations and choices produce, for what The Femme Muse believes, an authentic self in existence in the world.

The Femme Muse

Artists

Artists use aesthetics but it is the background rhythm to the foreground of producing an output. An artistic output is the practice and creation of a body of work (singular or collective) brought together to reflect dimensionality and discipline that is the complex human psyche, condition and or imagination. This is not just the act of creativity, it is the ability to rip into dimension making— to create new forms (derivatives or inventions). This is not always perceived or focused on beauty. Artists, should, be identified by the workings of their art. The word ‘working’ read here is not simply commercially valuable labor. It is the process of effort being made tangible in a form via human ability within a medium(s). There are some abilities that we have as humans that are innate or that we are uniquely drawn to craft, not out of need for income necessarily, but it is a gift, often times present since childhood. I’m attempting to be generous in interpretation but clear in distinction so that artforms that are not consider “fine arts” or refined by institution are included. An artist makes real their imagination from non-existent form into form. Art does not consider objects or concepts “as is” there is a process of significant articulation and intercourse with a medium, in my opinion that adds to the distinction. Art can borrow, interpolate and draw on things already in existence but it does not accept it, let alone present it back to the world in the same form that it was discovered. From here I can begin to talk about delineation, crediting, sourcing, researching but I think that’s a pandora’s box that I’ve touched on before and I can also save for its own bitchin. The case for this comes further in the reading.