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There are three components to the world of art: the artist, the work of art, and the connoisseur. This paper attempts to understand these three components in the light of Rabindranath Tagore's aesthetic philosophy. Tagore’s philosophy of aesthetic is focused on the deep understanding of the human being and a holistic perspective of life. He considers that there are two parts in one's inner existence: the first is the individual mind, and the second, the universal mind. Yet there is an additional third factor that shapes the human experience – the world. For Tagore, human existence does not end in himself, but with communication with the world outside. This communication happens through a complex process. First the outer world gets internalized in the human in two steps, first in the individual, and then in his universal. It is after this that the human externalizes this internalized object/experience into the outer world, which gets expressed or manifested as a work of art. Every one internalizes the outer world in his individual mind, but not all can do the second internalization in the universal mind. It is only the artist who is capable of this alchemy. Man has an innate yearning for the eternal from where his soul came from. It is this innate yearning that makes a beast out of a man, and man to an even higher being. According to Tagore, this entire cultural evolution, an evolution in consciousness, is guided by the thirst for Beauty, which is flowing as an undercurrent in the mind of man. Discussions by connoisseurs on Tagore's aesthetics take the notion further, encompassing the gamut of the human condition. Any connoisseur, or rather every human being, has to have a holistic view to penetrate and see beyond the world of outer objects. Indian traditional aesthetics always tries to see God from the vantage point of the whole world, which it acknowledges as God Itself. Tagore seeks to see the world in its entirety from God's vision, a vision that unifies the variety and diversity into a wholesome singularity.
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Aesthetic philosophy of Tagore, The hierarchy of Beauty, Man's innate yearning, A holistic perspective of life, Three components of the world of art
