Amygdala activation in response to threat-related artistic facial expressions draws affective arousal.
Aristotle
Seeking synthesis under the umbrella of an eccentric theory of art.
Hegel

Theories on why we like art are in books hauted by the ghost of past art models
Things one fears for no real reason, apparently obsessed by an idee fixe, have the impertinent tendency to come about.
Theodor Adorno