why beauty matters
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why beauty matters is a movie starring roger scruton. contemporary philosopher roger scruton presents a fascinating argument for the importance of beauty in our art and in our lives, and explores what truly is and is not beautiful, regardless of its beholder .
60 min talking about why. it would be cooler if he asked what is beauty first then the hole film would change .
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point is: all works of art can contain 3 kinds of beauty in varying degrees and levels. they usually contain at least two in varying levels. number 3 can be seen into anything which is why beauty can be so confusing .
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what i am only wondering about is the art that presents the beauty through uglyness. i truly think there is beauty in bukowski' s work. through the harshness he shows me a vulnerability that i perceive as the beauty of being human. that' s why i' m questioning if the first appereance of art should necessarily be polished beauty .
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sometimes it feels as though functionality is all that matters in software design. but a focus on aesthetics shows people that we care about their whole experience .
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i think he makes some great points. i am an artist myself, i enjoyed this a lot, i don' t why everyone has to be so aggressive about this documentary .
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he added .
i think the documentary success in proving exactly the opposite. the conceptual artist explains perfectly to this guy why the concept of beauty had developed through time to be no longer an aim on itself, and he answers back with sorry. . stupid cliches. ego trip
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there is subjective beauty, like sexual taste, and there is a universal quality of a beauty that is mathmatical. beauty in art combines both emotional experesion and mathmatical order and in this way not all art is subjectively beautiful .
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his designs are functional and sustainable, but they are also extraordinarily beautiful. people might not expect to find this kind of beauty in such extreme, harsh conditions, and some may even question whether it is a priority. when asked why a focus on aesthetics was important for these projects, he explained :
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and as much as i enjoy the religious discussions - why the hell does that topic keep coming up in this film? our concepts of beauty have absolutely nothing to do with religion, belief in religion, or anything remotely related to it with small exceptions such as its necessary inclusion in plato' s views .
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“we do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words - to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it. that is why we have peopled air and earth and water with gods and goddesses, and nymphs and elves. ” – c. s. lewis
beauty is in the eye of the beholder and we as individuals have no right to label beauty as having one definition that suites our individual opinions or tastes and dismissing the rest .
it is also not clear as to why a decision to proceed with the allegation was made without the cooperation and corroboration of the alleged victim and without having formed some opinion with regard the credibility of the allegation that was referred ,
the report states .
i think it' s a beautiful choice! as long as you' re comfortable, that' s all that matters. but i' m sure you' re going to look stunning and all eyes will definitely still be on you .
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beauty has a lot to do with energetic self regard and that is why it can surrender a message of
inner beauty
through art. in the end when an artist produce a magnum opus, it is a reflection of his self that is seen in the piece, and if that self is tortured and dis - enchanted it will show those qualities and if that self is harmonius and spirited it will show those qualities. i consider beauty to mean love, those two words are reflection of each other in a pond of energy. az
“beauty is the first message you give the patient, that you consider them as equal. ”
without beauty, nothing else matters. “in my city, chicago, i have seen firsthand what happens when a focus on, say, housing fails to account for our human thirst for beauty, for the sublime, the emotionally enriching, the spiritual, ” gates says. if we build homes without culture, without a social agenda, we’re simply creating new kinds of problems — and we won’t come close to solving the ones we have .
i couldn' t agree more; there is a dearth of beauty in modern society. beauty is an international language recognized by everyone, not just black - clad pseudo - intellectuals drifting about .
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philosopher roger scruton is perhaps the foremost proponent of the theory that the world is going to hell in a handcart. in his polemical film why beauty matters (bbc2) he looked profoundly uncomfortable in front of the camera, as if just being out in the modern world was giving him hives. his targets were modern art and architecture, which he believes are in thrall to a
cult of ugliness
, but he was not afraid to widen his scope .
it' s not just our physical surroundings that have become ugly ,
he said .
our language, our music and manners are increasingly raucous, self - centred and offensive .
as for beauty i think it has been held up as a value for far too long. the lengths that people are driven to to become this type of
beautiful
is leading us down a worse road than what the art of today is. the plastic surgeries and beauty products being sold to us in this quest for beauty is somewhat unobtainable and shallow. we have been sold this idea of beauty for too long. not that i don' t think that beauty does not hold its place because i find many art of today beautiful as many things in the world are but the beauty that scruton seems to be concerning himself with more to do with class and etiquette than what beauty is really about .
philosopher roger scruton presents a provocative essay on the importance of beauty in the arts and in our lives .
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beauty is in the eye of the beholder. scruton neglects to portray that beauty lies in truth. a painting doesn' t necessarily have to portray a conventional homogeneous beauty, but rather one can find beauty in truth, no matter how shocking or grotesque it may appear to the audience. though i believe that some art today are without substance, it is because of consumer culture. if you try to look and understand the meaning behind some of the works of modernist and anarchist in the world of art you will find not just boundless beauty but unassuming truth in human life. i find scruton' s search for beauty very presumptuous, arrogant, and very bias to a conservative idealism, which is ultimately the very opposite definition of beauty !
beauty should be the starting point of everything. “at every level of the human experience, we are looking for the beautiful, something that gives priority to our souls, not just our physical needs, ” says gates. “we drink in nature, we yearn to commune with the beautiful, we crave the sublime, so that’s why the starting point for everything i do is the beautiful, not the practical. ”
beauty is an everyday thing. it happens everywhere all the time, even in a pile of bricks. i feel sorry for him if needs his beauty to be force fed by a botticelli on a silver tray .
quick: make a list of the things you need every day. your first thought is probably what’s practical: food, a roof over your head, your health. we value these things so much that we say all human beings deserve them. artist theaster gates (ted talk: how to revive a neighborhood: with imagination, beauty and art) wants to add a new item to the list. here, he makes the case for why we should treat beauty as a basic service, and happiness as a metric of success .
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the beauty in that song was the sorrow for her dead son or husband because of how much she loved him. that would make you feel compassion communion a sense of oneness which is love, beauty. arts just a word
beauty is an everyday thing. it happens everywhere all the time, even in a pile of bricks .
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to suggest the alleged victim met a social worker after she met the counsellor in 2013 or after the file was changed the following year. the review said it was
not clear
why the senior tusla official looked at the original file rather than the correct version amended in 2014 .
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i like it... there is beauty in it! looking at a baby, loosing someone, and falling in love actually made sense in me. an affirmation of old adage that real beauty is in the eye of the beholder .
i think we are losing beauty and there is a danger that with it, we will lose the meaning of life .
and if you had asked for the point of that? you would have learned that beauty is a value, as important as truth and goodness. then in the 20th century, beauty stopped being important. art increasing aimed to disturb and to break moral taboos, it was not beauty but originality, however achieved and at whatever moral cost, that won the prizes .
art critic and broadcaster matthew collings presented a mischievous guide to beauty from the earliest points in history through to the present day .
i see beauty in the ugly. its the same thing. this guy see it differently but shouldn' t speak for everyone
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the truth, as always is somewhere in the middle. however subjective beauty may be there is a universal basis to it. why is a baby - elephant cute while a baby - lizard creepy? ? we
look
thru filters that we have evolved to host. mass influence is what defines the locus of evolution. its fate is determined by the workability... what i mean to say, perhaps 2000years back a puny, baby - faced, male artist was never likely to get a mate as compared to a agressive muscular brut. but things change. today we have something called a bank account! ! definition of beauty and' attractive' change .
beauty is an emotion, or a product of emotions. saying beauty exists with the universe devoid of humans is like saying that you would have the concept of a penalty shootout in football, sans the existence of the game itself - a crude example, but you do get the point. there is no beauty in the universe per se. it is you and me who find the vastness of the universe poetic and beautiful .
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i was so moved by this notion. it put into words something that had been hard for me to articulate over the years i had spent working on highly utilitarian designs for google, youtube, and now facebook. great design solves a real problem and improves people’s lives. it can also be accessed and used with a minimum of confusion and strife. but companies, especially high tech companies, have struggled with whether or not beauty really matters. if you get the two first parts right, won’t people be satisfied ?
you’ve already guessed it, the concept of beauty isn’t limited to having high cheek bones, whopper boobs or more timely, that perfect thigh gap. outer beauty does matter, though. it really is as brutally simple as that. telling ourselves it doesn’t is counterproductive - and an outright lie. beauty impacts the course of our careers, the size of our salaries, the attractiveness of our partners - and all too often our own self - esteem. but the term beauty doesn’t only encompass the visual. “if you know and love the entirety of a person - their face, body and soul - the outside beauty perhaps becomes less relevant and a different kind of attractiveness overshadows the rest, ” philosopher tobias hürter tells life links .
3. beauty: this can be resolved by dividing it into 3 categories. * one is
elegance
, like the elegance of a good chess game - cunning, intellectual, witty - this is the kind of beauty duchamp describes. * second is banal beauty - think kitsch, koons - its very
sweet
because it complies completely to being conventionally
pleasant
to the biased eyes. the banal is predictable, sweet, pleasant, not very individual (think barbie), and thus flat, accessible, blunt, and unchallanging. * third kind of beauty is beauty as revealing otherness: opposite of # 2. the beauty of infinite particularity, that seems to
arrest
or
shift
the consciousness; it maintains a mystery that perpetuates the longer one gaze. it seems to be completely
itself
rather than mere imitation or mass - production .
. art critic waldemar januszczak flew the flag for modern art, as he argued that art today is as interested in beauty as it always has been .
wilde' s ideas are very interesting, and i think beauty is underrated, but beauty is a hell of a lot more than just what looks pretty. i personally find many derelict buildings beautiful, and anything that can truly disturb me is also usually beautiful, due to the incredible emotion it evokes .
an agruement to be made is, holywood, popstars and fasion have taken over the need for beauty... in the appetite for this you can see the need for beauty... but film and foto do not capture it realy... it' s cheap and lazy... .
there is in fact tons of beauty, even at times the traditional beauty of scruton, in contemporary art. his presentation feels to me like propaganda against contemporary art. there is a high chance that people who are not actually informed of the artworld of the day would be swayed to a strong opinion against it .
hehheh. beauty. art. sympathetic but not the same. art can be ugly, but beauty, obviously, cannot. . although beauty is found in chaos, violence and tragedy, as well as harmony, silence, and urltoken day i was playing some coltrane and my friend declared
this music is ugly !
. i was amazed that not everyone could hear what i was hearing. was i just deluded to think coltrane was cool and that i was cooler for listening to him? turns out, i had learned something about beauty then. it' s always out there if you' re willing to see it
a 1 hour long rant about modern art. beauty is not absent from todays world at all, we just made room for some ugly. deal with it .
too simplistic for me. i can' t believe it just ended without even exploring beauty in a contemporary context. what of janet cardiff' s forty - part motet? or olafur eliasson' s weather project? there is so much contemporary art out there that explores beauty in such incredible ways! this guy is an idiot !
in the 20th century, scruton argues, art, architecture and music turned their backs on beauty, making a cult of ugliness and leading us into a spiritual desert .
in the 20th century, scruton argues, art, architecture and music turned their backs on beauty, making a cult of ugliness and leading us into a spiritual desert .
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beauty, as with art, will stand the test of time. when the noise of ugliness and talent - less, pretentious, self - serving shit subside, those great works of beauty will still be there to remind us that there is something more to art than causing materials to represent an idea. however interesting and innovative it may be .
i think what he wants is more humanism and beauty is the result of it. modernists have ruined it all. we need a school of classical architecture in europe immediately !
too simplistic for me. i can' t believe it just ended without even exploring beauty in a contemporary context. what of janet cardiff' s forty - part motet? or olafur eliasson' s weather project? there is so much contemporary art out there that explores beauty in such incredible ways! this guy is an id * * t !
at anytime between the 1750 and 1930, if you had asked educated people to describe the aim of how poetry, art or music. they would have replied, beauty .
i can see the beauty in his pitiful attempt at clinging on to his disapprobation toward others' incoherence to the bourgeois aesthetic of' beauty' (which we all know is relative) who have been seemingly producing incendiary works that apparently challenge the authoritative aspect of what is acceptable and what is permissible as insider art, from an outsider' s perspective .
it is not that we are losing beauty, it is that we are homogenizing beauty and it' s opposite together. we are more and more allowing everything as art, inhibitions are dropped in all fields. it is left to the viewer to chose, the way a gardener would chose among the million of flowers and shrubs which he uses to decorate his surrounding .
and standard in art these days is all about money. no need to lay it at the feet of the artists. beauty and taste are all in the eye of the beholder .
contemporary philosopher roger scruton presents a fascinating argument for the importance of beauty in our art and in our lives, and explores what truly is and is not beautiful, regardless of its beholder .
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well, i am reminded of the old question
if a tree falls in the forest, and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound ?
what i' m suggesting is that there is an inherent beauty in the cosmos. . whether we percieve it or not. that beauty (although its' perception is in the eye of the beholder, and subjective to our experience of it) is the essence of the universe and will always be long after the last human dissapears from the earth. beauty is. art on the other hand. , is different. like football would not exist without the players or fans, art, and the appreciation of it is a human product. art is a conduit; an expression which can reveal beauty. a stained glass masterpiece is beautiful, but loses its' meaning without the sun. the majesty of the sun is revealed by the art as the beauty of the glass is revealed by the light
his precis of the history of theories about beauty, from plato to kant, only served to soften his case. there' s a reason people don' t think of the world as
intrinsically meaningful
any more: because it isn' t. he talks approvingly of the beauty to be found in nature, in the ordinary and the everyday. he demonstrates that beauty can be wrought from ugly things, but refuses to accept that modern art can be a testament to all this. i thought he inadvertently made a better case for tracey emin' s bed than she ever did .
the author is right. beauty is objective. factually, light - skinned western europeans are the most beautiful humans. this causes problems for the ugly. salvation for the ugly lies in appreciating absolute beauty in nature and relationships, don' t whine. as muddy waters put it :
you can' t spend what you haven' t got, you can' t lose what you never had
.
but beyond that, the purpose of the novel is to point out the flaws in victorian society. the attacks on marriage, the church, morality, and the blatant homosexual themes were: a) very very offensive (wilde was imprisoned for the gay stuff) and b) clearly serve a purpose beyond beauty: wilde was pointing out the hypocrisy of his audience. clearly there is more there than beauty .
although none of these qualities fully grasp the complete essence of beauty and no complete definition exists one can peel away the outer layers of the onion and reveal the substratum of aesthetic objects using the aforementioned tools .
if you love someone, looks are only one part of the package. the beauty of their mind, heart and smile will also be a factor. good thing we can work on these, too .
what do you think is beautiful a content old lady or man or an old lady or man trying trying to look 30. beauty is in the eye or the face of the beholder he touched on that ,
i like how scruton suggests that beauty is dead, but i believe that it is not because of two reasons: 1. beauty is infinite, it is found in an uncountable amount of places, people, nature... .. but our appreciation of it is lacking in the western world, so our expression of it sucks. 2. expression of beauty changes by whatever region you are in the world, and the best work of beauty is found in where it is most appreciated. after all, the dark ages were the greatest period of art, architecture, scientific, and medical achievements for the middle east, and there discoveries in this era continue to benefit the world today. the question is... has the ship sunk for the western world only to sprout in china / asia, south america, africa, middle east ?
this documentry is useful, rodger scruton takes you on an ego trip and putting up and concluding a common, false, understanding of the world and beauty. the fall is obviously spiritualism, in which he uses as a golden ticket, whenever he approaches a difficult area somewhere in his argument underlies. . the unknown beauty of god. this shows perfectly how not to go about a philosophical undertaking of art and beauty. now if this documentry got you thinking but you have enough sense to know its nonsense, i can recommend two books: the invention of art - larry shiner. art and aesthetics: the insitutional theory of art - george dickie. have fun .
art should be taken to heart by the meaning of the word art itself ,
techn ?
: which means
mastery of a craft
pushing the human skills to their limits and creating worlds of beauty inside them .
this is what the architectural designs of tamassociati are trying to teach us: that beauty is the first message we give the people for whom we are designing: they are our equals, and we care deeply about their experience .
but where’s the line between enjoying beauty and being content with yourself? what about life links’ isis and all that silicone? have the 1. 5 million people who underwent cosmetic surgery in brazil in 2013 made an unwise decision ?
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hitlers idea of beauty regarding art was consistently the concept of the
the brave soldier
. his attempt was mixing art and propaganda. not an attempt at rewriting classicism. he would have i' m sure if he dominated .
scary conservative, unimaginative documentary on the art viewing and making experience. he didn' t deal with the fact that artists are trained to respond to, deconstruct, and dismantle the work of their predecessors i. e. duchamp... . so scruton, in his bizarre, limited, anachronistic bubble of beauty, fails to acknowledge that the history of beauty evolves, as sure as the after - market prices for great masters works will increase... .
i had watched the mona lisa curse; it discusses the modern function of art as a commodity or economic functionary as art loses its aesthetic value to its new role as a vehicle as speculative trade objects. money has become the transcendent essence of art. . the correlation between artful rendering of beauty as a spiritual or godlike experience always seems to make the intellectuals uneasy as it defies quantification. the perciever is sensually overwhelmed, awestruck by a sensation which is indescribable in words. he' s in the sublime. the words theoretical or industrial or even aesthetic cease to apply to the feeling, it' s a rush but this is about beauty. . if humans suddenly vanished, what is art? nothing. it ceases to be. but is there still beauty in a universe devoid of humans? a beauty of cosmic dynamic perfection eternally transmuting even without the judgemental egotism of the puny human mind? ha ha, what do you think ?
somewhere this took a really silly turn for me. i was completely agreeing with him, but then his baseless arguments finally ate away at me. the most basic and powerful element of beauty is that it is subjective. the end .
concepts of beauty change over time. technology has shifted social interpretation of beauty to something different just as man' s relationship to man has changed - utlitarianism has in fact changed how we view the world and one another. art is merely an extension of how man views the world at any point in time. profitability and disregard for humanism is now reflected in modern art. rothko was trying to alert society to its inevitable destruction through the atomic bomb - hence he committed suicide. destruction of all natural resouces bit by bit for the sake of consumerism. we would be wise to give this documentary serious weight or there will in fact, be nothing left to appreciate - much less argue about what is meant by beauty .
we must invest in higher quality design systems and standards for visual design. efforts like google’s material design show that companies can prioritize the value of beauty in software design. we must partner with our engineering colleagues to ensure that we make the fit and finish of interfaces something that can be done reasonably fast so it doesn’t fall on the editing floor. and we must understand that beauty is going to mean different things to different people, depending on the problems a given product is looking to address .
using the thoughts of philosophers from plato to kant, and by talking to artists michael craig - martin and alexander stoddart, scruton analyses where art went wrong and presents his own impassioned case for restoring beauty to its traditional position at the center of our civilization .
beauty can change how people act. people act differently around beautiful things, says gates. “if you’re in an environment where there’s a bunch of waste on the ground, it’s easy not to care for that place, to add your filth to the existing filth. by making a place beautiful, which often means simply peeling back the layers of what is already there, we remove the distractions. we are able to see the existing beauty more clearly, and we are able to start to begin to care. ”
a documentary to be watched only for old ladies after sunday service. what makes a work of art is the pursuit of the sublime and the sublime includes both beauty and ugliness. even the most perfect artistic production includes ugliness. the
david
' s real value as a work of art may be more in the fact that it expresses the frustration to achieve complete beauty (the ideal) than in its seemingly perfect features. plato' s influence has done a lot of evil both in history and in art .
i agree with scruton' s premise that beauty is far more important than society today gives it credit for. i myself have thought about
form follows function
and how that should not necessarily be the case. i do, however, find scruton' s idea on what beauty is or can be quite narrow. a favorite recent movie of mine, no country for old men, deals primarily with the ugliness of the world, yet i find it to be an extraordinarily beautiful film. examples like that abound .
beauty of form can also be seen in the interaction of simple components. alliteration and anaphora in literature; cadenza, repetition and nuance in music; symmetry in the face of a beautiful woman; the elegance of a mathematical proof are all appreciated through their formal structure .
it’s irrational, subjective and makes life worth living - the world revolves around beauty, be it our perception of beautiful people or objects. but what is it, really? we asked some people in the know to find out. (27. 02. 2015 )
now more than ever, beauty is being talked about, invested in, and strived for. as the dresden hygiene museum asks
what is beautiful ?
in its latest exhibition, dw sheds some light on the perennial question. (16. 04. 2010 )
beauty begets beauty. “in my neighborhood, we used to feel the constant threat of violence hanging over our heads, ” says gates. “now, summer’s coming and instead everyone’s talking about the next barbecue, when we’re having our block party. the hunger for cultural programming, the creativity generated on our block allows people to embrace the possible. we’ve become a positive beacon shining a light to show what’s possible. and yet all we’re doing is providing a platform for the skill, talent, love and genius of those who are already there. ”
he believes the essence of art is to convey beauty. that does not imply aristocracy or exclusivity. he uses as an example what children attempt to strive for when they create art as an example of the inner meaning it has for us all. you have completely misunderstood him .
as we’ve been trying to tell you - beauty is more than just looks and physical features. the way we view ourselves is a decisive factor in how beautiful people think we are - both inside and out. getting a nose job doesn’t automatically make you happier - and there are
today art is nothing but a commodity (i apologize if i sound like robert hughes), but the fact many works of classical art today are bought and sold by the super wealthy mearly on the basis of investment without any regard for the intrinsic
beauty
of the work .
i disagree with scruton regarding art. he wants art to be aristocratic and exclusive; he thinks only certain people can be artists and only certain things can be art. he then contradicts himself and says
beauty is an ordinary everyday kind of thing. ordinary things made beautiful .
so beautiful to see someone so sure of something, who totally snubs out anyone else who may find beauty in other things, make himself look like an ass, when in fact it was his last attempt at trying to make a beautiful quality documentary, starring himself, before his retirement .
i personally do think that beauty is scare in the production of anything in the current world, simply because we live in a utilitarian world that has become very individualistic. most modern artists want to be considered revolutionary, as their focus seems to be more on being recognized for an idea that they invented, instead of simply trying to present the beauty or the essence of something. their art is simply a means to an end, the end being the appreciation of their inventiveness or creativity or randomness by others. i think that a piece of art should be an end in and of itself .
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i must say that i agree with the man. to be surrounded by beauty and coherence in the shape it is presented in is for me a fundamental need. i feel in a way connected with my surroundings and my human nature. i know this sounds pretentious, but i cannot explain it other words .
oh it' s so beautifully well constructed when he opens the film discussing (and being placed among and interacting with)' beauty' as a relic of the past. it' s also beautiful how he attributes the birth philosophy to the greeks as if philosophy had never existed within cultures prior 2000 years ago .
). i' m not a big fan of showing off my curves, and i' ve had some major disagreements with my mother about how i look in my wedding dress (she thinks i look fat in it), and as much as you' d like to ignore comments like that, it' s your mom and, well... mom' s opinion matters. anyway, that long story aside, i' d really like to be comfortable for dancing to our band after dinner, and i couldn' t say no to this adrianna papell dress as a reception option - & dollar; 65! i would likely have it hemmed to be short. what do you guys think? it' s a black tie optional affair, but i' d dress it up a bit with fun shoes and jewelry .
people are awakening to this tyranny of the ugly. we' re on to the elitists who interpret esoteric meaning in meaningless works by untalented, fatuous hacks hunting for grant money, or who foist clunky, soviet - style architecture onto graceful historic towns to squat there belligerently amidst the beauty like dung in the sistine chapel .
all the complaints below sadly prove how pointless can it be to speak the truth to those who live from a lie. mentioning the eras of art, definition of the term beauty, even hitler... really? don' t we all live surrounded by hideous malls, highways, kitsch? what more evidence do you need? accusing him for saying that art is an aristocratic value of some kind, while you are the ones perceiving art as something restricted for galleries - because otherwise you wouldn' t even recognize it, as mentioned. think about it; why does everyone travel to paris? to see the
historic center
right? you don' t get a lot of suburbia on your postcards do you? so forget about the galleries and conceptual art, forget about scruton if you wish it' s all unimportant, the important thing is that everything is u - g - l - y. pretending to be modern, pretending to be new... have you ever seen a modern building which looks good with an aged facade? neither have i. art has always been a direct image of it' s society. in this era, it' s all a big lie. nothing more than a lie .
i think it' s sad how deffensive artists are about their point of view. whatever the modern art concept of beauty is, it' s undeniable that we did lost something of value along the way of revolutionizing the field. a sense of wonder with the object of art per se, not only the idea behind it .
not only has art made a cult of ugliness, architecture too has become soulless and sterile and it' s not just our physical surroundings that have become ugly. our language, our music and our manners are increasing raucous, self - centered and offensive. as though beauty and good taste have no real place in our lives .
like in every century, decade and or year there are seasons and cycles to certain artistic inclinations which will predominate over others. at times artists will become more interested in exploring certain realistic or mundane topics for example, at other times the imaginary becomes more relevant, at times the primitive, minimalistic and essential becomes the trend of exploration, at other times maximalism and creating larger - than - life art becomes the focus. in these last 30 years, pop art has predominated in music and in the visual world, but who knows what lies on the horizon. it could be an amalgam of classical art, modern, surrealism, electronic, and even more. basically art follows as many themes as it can explore, it is first and foremost always subject to the' laws' of freedom. that' s why one can never truly pinpoint or discuss on these topics but from a highly personal vantage point which at times can be very narrow in perspective .
all my points up until now are not to say that i agree with scruton on everything though. indeed, he claims that louis sullivan, through his quote, “form follows function” has facilitated the single largest crime against art and society yet – modern architecture. i have to disagree with this. i find beauty in modern architecture and completely agree with sullivan’s quote and dislike the idea of someone who has not formally studied architecture or design critiquing a foundational idea, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. because thus person has not been formally trained, they do not know the purpose or arguments behind that quote or the reasoning for it. i do not think beauty is the goal of all things. function is a goal that can be beautiful and functional, but in our modern society where money rules all, beauty is not always achievable and one must do what they can with what they have – and there is beauty in that. scruton claims tnat things that aren’t beautiful but have function soon lose function because they are ugly. this is an interesting thought to me and i do not have a response to this. it is something that i must mull over and consider, it is incredibly interesting and i am sure i will watch this video many more times through my life. i can see this influencing my design ethic for the future .
while watching the video, i could not help but think that the movement from beauty as aim of art to originality as the aim, began around the time of the renaissance with humanization of art. the way i see it, the more we humanize and focus on how movement and all other artistic elements are seen by the artist, we move further away from god, or spirituality at all. we’ve gone from one end of the spectrum (medieval times) to the other (postmodern, shock art). as evidence of this idea, is the quote, “…through the pursuit of beauty… we also come to understand our own nature as spiritual beings. ” (scruton, 3: 00) additionally, the video made me think of how much humans rely on structure and things that are larger and more important that ourselves. i believe it necessary to have some order and have something to be achieved – beauty. without the pursuit of something higher than ourselves, we walk around without purpose making this meaningless art .
as a graphic novelist, maquette sculptor and so called' modern' artist i don' t like being called a village idiot by you or by anyone because i don' t conform to what renaissance era definition of beauty you think we all should enjoy. the 20th century was about freeing art for expression, not just conforming to the church .
yes to scruton. i don' t want to pretend that i admire or even understand why a urinal could be considered as art. i see it to be utterly ironic that common things by their nature of being common, can now pass as something sublime, and thus something worthy of admiration. i personally think that to be called an artist nowadays wouldn' t give you enough merit or satisfaction in pursuing such career since any man can make a straight line and declare it as a fine work of art. frankly speaking and i bet majority will agree, one could only feel pride in their work if they know that they are cut above from the rest - that is if their works are done not only with originality and creativity, but also with expertise and skills cultivated and honed through years of serious studies (unless they' re exceptionally gifted !). it' s very sad that not everyone could be doctors and save lives, but everyone could be artists and pretend to save lives.
why beauty matters is a 2009 british documentary film directed louise lockwood , written and presented by the philosopher roger scruton . scruton argues for the importance and transcendental nature of beauty . the film was a part of bbc 's project modern beauty season , which consisted of a number of programmes on the topic of beauty and modernity , broadcast during november and december 2009 . why beauty matters premiered on bbc two on 28 november 2009 . 
why beauty matters is a 2009 british documentary film directed louise lockwood, written and presented by the philosopher roger scruton. scruton argues for the importance and transcendental nature of beauty. the film was a part of bbc's project modern beauty season, which consisted of a number of programmes on the topic of beauty and modernity, broadcast during november and december 2009. why beauty matters premiered on bbc two on 28 november 2009.
why beauty matters is a 2009 british documentary film directed louise lockwood, written and presented by the philosopher roger scruton. scruton argues for the importance and transcendental nature of beauty. the film was a part of bbc's project modern beauty season, which consisted of a number of programmes on the topic of beauty and modernity, broadcast during november and december 2009. why beauty matters premiered on bbc two on 28 november 2009.