Theodore Winters, a 30-year-old artist, creates pop art inspired by the 1950s and 1960s, using clean lines and bold colors, and shares his work on social media with soundtracks of 1950s and 1960s ...

This is an essay about the phenomenon of “aesthetic chills”—you know, the moment when, experiencing a work of art, you feel a rush of physical emotion, a shiver that runs down your spine.