Consider Non-Formal Aesthetics

Abstract

Until now, in art education, Western aesthetics dominates as a science that has (as if) been patented for analyzing (formal) art (materials). Every time he researches, writes and analyzes the field of art, he always uses formal Western aesthetics. Finally, up to this moment, Western aesthetic formality (as it seems) cannot be shaken in its position in the study of art in Indonesia. From the classical aesthetic theory of Ancient Greece to Modern, it has become a [1]'mandatory' formal [2]material in aesthetic (art) analysis.

From the context of formal aesthetics, is there no non-formal aesthetics or alternative aesthetics? Of course, what is meant here is non-Western aesthetics which can be used as a formal art object.

Looking for non-formal aesthetics is a 'resistance' to the dominance of established Western aesthetics. Western aesthetics has had standardization and recognition as a "science"; Meanwhile, non-formal aesthetics (possibly) still has no standardization or recognition as a science. Formal aesthetics is within the grand narrative , while non-formal aesthetics is still within the scope of the little narrative .