Three
Pillars
of
properties

There are three kinds of properties in the aesthetic perception. They can be categorized as psychological, organizational or meaningful.

Although our definition of aesthetics is to some degree limiting, most of the research done in the area of experimental aesthetics since the pioneering work of Fechner (1876) is relevant for our overview. Much of this research focused on finding, mostly visual, properties of objects, whether simple patterns, artworks or designed objects, determining aesthetic preference. These properties are generally classified into three classes: Psychophysical, organizational, and meaningful properties (e.g. Berlyne, 1971; see Hekkert, 1995 for an overview).