Baroque; aesthetic experience; Aesthetics; touch; surrealism; theory of visual art; art

The present paper deals with the place and importance of touch in an aesthetic experience of art, especially in the area of the fine art. An understanding of the sense of touch in the history of European Aesthetics and theory of visual art is addressed. The author focuses on touch as a theme for artists, especially in the Baroque art and Surrealism. In the last part of the paper the author indicates the increasing interest in touch in the area of visual art, and asks the question if touch contact with artworks can enrich the process of art interpretation and evaluation.