The Embodied Simulation Account of Aesthetics

One of the theories, so this is more about the aesthetic side of things, looks at the embodied simulation account of aesthetics. What they suggest is that one of the reasons or avenues through which we derive pleasure through artworks is that the work itself evokes in us what it would take to create that work. So if you see these paintings, but these artworks that are hung there is like a big gash through a canvas. And you can like viscerally appreciate what it would be to take a knife or something sharp and gash a canvas. Or when you see a sculpture that's kind of even from rock, you could appreciate kind of the movements that were involved to make that