The relationship between discovery, pleasure and therapy in terms of reception aesthetics

According to art, which accepts human beings and the world as a whole, the artist embraces the world in their own personality and emotions and reshapes and creates it in their works. Art is the state of transforming their inner reactions lying in their subconscious, which they cannot reveal, into a concrete object. The artist performs their work by transferring the issues of life they try to resolve into the matter. While art is considered to be dependant on the material world by this dual structure, it is also a spiritual journey that goes beyond it. Emerging as a result of interpreting the ordinary with the self, art bears the duty of establishing a connection between the emotional turmoil, inner contradictions, and impulses of humans and society, and this helps to reach reconciliation. The work of art conveys the reflections of the artist's life adventure to the audience. When the audience encounters this adventure, it reveals a path. The reception of the audience is according to the emotional state with which the emotion of the path matches. In the last instance, the artwork received by that emotion gains meaning, and thus it is analyzed. Artworks experience the process of existence when they are interpreted and analyzed by the audience beyond aesthetic taste. They are reconstructed in each aesthetic reception. The present study handles reception in two ways; from the perspective of both the artist and the receiver of the artwork. The self-discovery and therapy experienced with the artwork created by the artist during the process of creation of the artwork have been studied through the answer sought by philosophy for the question "what is beauty" since Ancient Greece. The sympathy experienced by the receiver of the work with the work and the treatment process experienced through the work have also been tried to be explained with the concept of therapy. In conclusion, this thesis, which examines art as a therapeutic power, seeks ananswer to the question "how to reach therapy with the aesthetic of reception" throughthe concept of therapy. Key words: Reception Aesthetics, Treatment, Aesthetics, Art Therapy, Art