This essay talks mainly about the differences between aesthetic emotions and everyday emotions.Firstly we need to be sure that the work of art has something to do with emotions both of artists and audience.The paper tries to prove this from the perspectives of expressionism,formalism and representationalism.Then the paper differentiates the two kinds of emotions from three aspects.Audience need to keep psychical distance from arts,contemplating art in a disinterested way and use imagination to arouse the aesthetic emotions.Although aesthetic emotions are different from everyday emotions,there are some relations between them.The meaning of appreciating works of art is mainly to realize much more delicate or significant emotions that we could not or do not want to acquire in our limited and realistic daily life,through which we broaden our lives and know more about ourselves and the world we live in.
