“There is no Sleepy Hollow on the Internet, no peaceful spot where contemplativeness can work its restorative magic. There is only the endless, mesmerizing buzz of the urban street.” Nicholas Carr, from The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains (New York: Norton, 2010)
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Beauty
All of the arguments that we've read about so far, discussing what's aesthetically beautiful or not, have been relatively easy for me to understand and agree with. There is no way to tell someone their opinion is wrong and something they think is beautful really isn't because you're not them, and you can't see how things may appear to their eyes. Our experiences and knowledge have a lot to do with why certain images are attractive to us and others aren't, but to me you can look at something without being educated on it and think it's beautiful from a different point of view. Maybe a sunset doesn't appear to be anything special for one person, and another might think it holds true beauty because their seeing it and thinking about it from a spiritual point of view, to them thats how it holds value. If an object like a flower is just pleasing from a physical perspective like its color, than it usually doesn't hold your attention for very long. Whatever does hold you're attention, and you think is aesthetically beautiful, typically is something you have some sort of interest in, and that would make it a lot more meaningful.
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I completely agree, I think this class above all has showed that in many ways we all lack the true understanding of what should and is aesthetically beautiful. I think that more times than not we get so caught up in this allure of devoting ourselves to a higher meaning for it that we forget to enjoy it for what it is. We have been created as humans with unique personality and variations of taste, therefore, we all will never fully agree on this matter. I wonder that if we at times try to find this balance that we forget that we are staring at something that doesn't want to be depicted but rather enjoyed for what it is.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with Latonio. We look to hard for a meaning that we completely miss the point of the beauty of nature. Not everyone will see the same beauty as the person next to them, but that all depends on what exactly they are looking at. Latonio is totally right with his last sentence. It should be enjoyed for what it is, and sometimes I feel that people pick apart every aspect of the object and each portion is judged separate from its remainders. Is that really the way it should be?
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