
Aesthetic experience was not just a rational decision - one did not look at a pleasing curved form and decide it was beautiful - rather it was a matter of basic human instinct and came naturally. By the last third of the 18th century, Enlightenment rationalist ideas about aestheticism were being challenged by looking at the experiences of beauty and sublimity as being non-rational (instinctual).

The term "picturesque" needs to be explained in terms of its relationship to two other aesthetic ideals: those of the beautiful and the sublime. Picturesque, along with the aesthetic and cultural strands of Gothic and Celticism, was a part of the emerging Romantic sensibility of the 18th century.

Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty made in the Summer of the Year 1770, a practical book which instructed England's leisured travelers to examine "the face of a country by the rules of picturesque beauty". Picturesque is an aesthetic ideal introduced into English cultural debate in 1782 by William Gilpin in Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of South Wales, etc. Qualificatif d'un lieu (fr) īlowhard, chic, chichi, chicness, last word, modishness, smartness, stylishness, swaggerer, swank - chicly, fashionably, modishly, nattily, smartly (observation observance watching), (attentiveness attention attending notice), (careful alert attentive obliging), (interest) (interest), (interesting), (interest), (not be indifferent to interest) (odd weird far-out peculiar strange unusual), (singularity eccentricity oddness oddity strangeness uncommonness) (merriment merry-making jollity gaiety mirth cheerfulness revel revelry), (ironically), (laughter laugh)

Qualificatif de qualité du caractère (fr)
