In Crispin Sartwell’s Six Names of Beauty, he discusses the numerous ideas and meanings behind the word beauty, highlighting how it can be taken in an infinite amount of ways, though the way that Sartwell explained “Yapha”, meaning “to glow or bloom” in Hebrew was the explanation of beauty that was most relevant to me as it speaks of the small moments in life that allow us to experience the overall beauty of the world. Sartwell explains that “…a thing, as it were, sheds or exudes its beauty. Beauty is something the beautiful object emits, like a light: a thing is beautiful in virtue of what it gives” (28). As an artist, specific paintings, like “Starry Night” by Van Gogh, for example, is a piece that has it’s own beauty, that emits beauty from within. As it was said, something is found beautiful because it simply is: it is beautiful, in the way that Van Gogh worked his way along the canvas in rushed, frenzied strokes, yet when the rapid strokes blend together, they ultimately produce a piece that is able to emit its own beauty and its own virtue; it must rely upon nothing else but itself. …show more content…
People often become overwhelmed by senses, beauty included: they become so entrenched in documenting the beauty that they no longer see the purity of the object, they see labels and values. An example would be Sartwell’s discussion on identifying just the ‘right’ shade of blue to the indigo Bunting bird. The idea of seeing things in values also relates to the individuality of beauty: the subjectiveness of beauty and how it is most often found in the smallest moments. It appears to me that in said small moments are the moments in which we are most innocent as it allows us to look at the individualities of a subject before gorging ourselves on the typical ‘grand scheme of things’. Beauty is in simplicity; and that is
Thus the illusion of beauty is still possible and even Gorgeous displays emotion despite knowing this “she adores her work from a distance for such a long time and it makes her cry”. Therefore, the irony in this story still exists for Gorgeous to end up being in a relationship with an artist. The personification of beauty continues as Wels’ remarks “Their relationship is the usual kind in which beauty and appreciation are dancing partners”. As she becomes a ‘model’, again ‘stillness’ is idealised as the trademark of beauty. As a result, the humour in Wels’ story also becomes tragic with Gorgeous’ realisation that beauty is fabricated and that the most beautiful are those that are
He clarifies his interpretation of aesthetic value, rejecting the traditionally narrow notions regarding beauty and composition, and expands his view to include insights and emotions expressed through the medium. Explaining that he views overall value as an all-things-considered judgement, he asserts the ethicist’s duty to contrast the aesthetic with the ethical and determine the extent to which one outweighs the other. Gaut calls on readers to defy the popular paradigm equating beauty with goodness and ugly with evil, allowing for great, yet flawed pieces of
beauty before we can truly cherish other forms of beauty around us. “Two or three things
Pablo Neruda’s “My ugly love” and William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 130” are commonly well-known to describe beauty in a way hardly anyone would write: through the truth. It’s a popular fact that many modern-day poets compose poems that make love seem perfect and use phrases that often costume the truth by masking true beauty with words. Yet, Shakespeare and Neruda, both sincere people, chose to write about what love really is, it matters more what’s on the inside than what is found on the outside. The theme of true beauty and love are found through Shakespeare and Neruda’s uses of reflection of imagery, uses of organized structure, and uses of sensory devices to describe the meaning of beauty and love.
Beauty is experienced through visual stimuli. The human being's intake of beauty is through both conscious and unconscious decisions. (4) (4) The question is what motivates our unconscious decisions...
work of elegance, beauty, and one in which every character in the painting is expressive
There is beauty and there is beauty. The two are not mutually exclusive, but rather represent two poles on a continuum. At one pole is the beauty that is associated with a sense of lightness and balanced order. It has a faintly decorative quality to it. At the other extreme is the much darker form of beauty that we associate with profundity and truth. This latter form of beauty I will analyze in terms of the containment of the sublime. The distinction between these two extremes of beauty has less to do with the objects under consideration, whether a flower, a sunset, a poem, a painting, or a piece of music, than it does with the attitude of the considerer of the object. That is, anything that possesses beauty of the first kind can also be viewed as possessing beauty of the second kind, if the attention of the viewer is directed appropriately. The differential across the continuum is constituted by the degree of awareness of the element of the sublime in the beautiful.
In “On beauty and Being Just” by Elanie Scarry she says “Beauty brings copies of itself into being. It makes us draw it, take pictures of it, or describes it to other people.”(pg. 1) When we see something we consider beautiful we can’t help but want to make it last forever. She argues that if we study beauty, the outcome of what we find could possibly be harmful and dangerous. When she writes in “On Beauty Being Wrong” she says that we make mistakes or are wrong in anyway about what we consider to be beautiful or not, that most of the time we are incorrect and make a mistake about it. She goes on to say in her writing that “A visual event may reproduce itself in the realm of touch.” (pg. 4) He says that “the simplest manifest of phenomenon is the everyday fact of staring. (pg. 5) She uses the example of a first glance at a bird. We want to duplicate it but not into a drawing or a poem or song, we simply want to just keep looking at it for as long as the bird will be there. “This replication in the realm of sensation can be carried out by a single perceiver across time or can instead entail a brief act of perception distributed across many
The concept of beauty is a subject society speaks on through many channels. Social media plays a tremendous role in how society measures beauty and how to achieve these impossible standards. People from all walks of life have become obsessed with the idea of beauty and achieving the highest level it. In many cases, those who do not meet societal views of what is “beautiful” can become very resentful to these predisposed notions of beauty. David Akst in his writing “What Meets the Eye”, is bitter toward women and their ongoing obsession with beauty.
However, as Walker discovered, beauty is when someone learns to love him or herself. No matter how perfect a person can seem they may have insecurities about the smallest physical things. As seen in Walker’s narrative, the definition of beauty changes over a lifetime, however, once a person is thankful it is easier to find the true definition of beauty. True beauty is learning to dance through like with oneself and not focusing on the physical fleeting things but on qualities of character that matter. Beauty is in finding oneself
In Introduction to Aesthetics, G.W.F. Hegel’s opening paragraphs describe the spacious realm of the beautiful, the relationship of beauty in both nature and art, and the limitation and defense of aesthetics. Hegel addresses that the proper way to express the meaning of aesthetics is to refer to it as Philosophy of Fine Art, however, once adopting this expression humans, “exclude the beauty of nature” (Hegel). As humans, it has become a way of life to use our senses to help describe the beauty of nature, animals and other people in our world. According to Hegel, “beauty of art is higher than nature” (Hegel) and it is the art that is created by the spirit that stands above that of nature. Nature is an incomplete substance and the, “realms of nature have not been classified and examined from the point of view of beauty” (Hegel). Therefore, there is a difference between the beauty of nature and
As stated by ‘The Duchess’, Margaret Wolfe Hungerford’s famous quote “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” As a result, beauty can describe as an inspiring view present in everything that can be seen. To begin, beauty can be viewed in a building as large and extravagant as the white house to the small hometown market or even in the sight of a single flower to a field filled with a million flowers. Also, beauty can be seen in the sunrise over the peaks of the mountains and also in the sunset glowing across a calm lake surrounded by the bright colors of the fall trees. Furthermore, people have physical beauty, which can be found in a person’s features, figure, or complexion. In the poem “Beauty & Dress” by Robert Herrick he explains the beauty he sees in his wife. Herrick states,
actual image. The idea of beauty is all around us. It is what we look for in all aspects of life. It is
...e ability to achieve anything in life. Hopefully, readers would learn from this novel that beauty is not the most important aspect in life. Society today emphasizes the beauty of one's outer facade. The external appearance of a person is the first thing that is noticed. People should look for a person's inner beauty and love the person for the beauty inside. Beauty, a powerful aspect of life, can draw attention but at the same time it can hide things that one does not want disclosed. Beauty can be used in a variety of ways to affect one's status in culture, politics, and society. Beauty most certainly should not be used to excuse punishment for bad deeds. Beauty is associated with goodness, but that it is not always the case. This story describes how the external attractiveness of a person can influence people's behavior and can corrupt their inner beauty.
Berger claims, “beauty is always an exception, always in despite of. This is why it moves us”, because there is rarely a glimpse of beauty in the harsh distain of nature, when there is a moment where the clouds clear and the sun peaks through, it moves us (82). Berger calls this the “aesthetic emotion”. It is difficult to explain in words, but is an emotion grounded deeply in all humans. Think about the sunrise, or a waterfall, or even something as simple as a flower. That warmth in your chest? That’s the aesthetic emotion. It is hope for a brighter future and, as the villagers who hang the white birds in their kitchens and chapels during long and cold winters; it is a reminder of summer and brighter days