Formas de la experiencia estética en artes visuales como teorización en torno a un proceso referencial de investigación-creación

Introduction: After some essential methodological clarifications about research-creation as a typology of research in the arts, a process of theoretical construction is developed for a situated knowledge of the notion of aesthetic experience. Methods: It proceeds in the context of accompaniment to a collective and synchronous process of research-creation in visual arts. Through observation and critical analysis, specific forms of manifestation of the visual aesthetic experience are identified, described and categorized. Results: An elaborate concept of aesthetic experience is provided and three specific categories are identified and described, as manifested in a set of 40 research-creation exercises in visual arts. Conclusions: Research-creation proceeds through the construction of an aesthetic experience, which, based on traditional and contemporary creative exercises, can be classified as contemplative, empathetic or immersive; according to specific characteristics that shelter a stylistic, technical and expressive diversity of great richness in the visual arts.