Experience of aesthetic value: Roman Ingarden

The article first explains the meaning of aesthetic values in principle, then analyzes Ingarden?s formulation of the problem of aesthetic values starting from the meaning of the aesthetic object, and finally explains the experience of aesthetic value, its place and function in a fully developed aesthetic experience. It is shown that the experience of aesthetic value represents an integral moment of a complete aesthetic experience and that it has two phases. In the first phase of the experience of aesthetic value, the emotional component prevails, in which we find liking, admiration, and delight for the harmonious whole of the qualitative consonance of the (previously constituted) aesthetic object. In the second phase of the aesthetic experience, in which the cognitive component of value assessment prevails, based on the previously constituted and emotionally approved aesthetic object, the work of art and artistic value are conceptually and discursively evaluated. The emotional component of the experience of aesthetic value represents the basic way of approaching aesthetic values, but also the essential core of evaluating artistic value and artwork in art criticism. The experience of aesthetic value is not only one of the indispensable moments of a developed aesthetic experience, but it represents its anchor point that enables a complete concretization of the aesthetic object and a retrospective understanding of the way in which the aesthetic object is based in the work of art.