Beauty & Art

The nature of beauty is one of the most enduring and controversial themes in Western philosophy, Beauty has traditionally been counted among the ultimate values, with goodness, truth, and justice. 

It is a primary theme among ancient Greek,  was central to eighteenth and nineteenth-century thought, By the beginning of the twentieth century, beauty was in decline as a subject of philosophical inquiry, and also as a primary goal of the arts. 

Art is an activity we do.  Art is an expression of our thoughts, emotions, intuitions, and desires. Through art we can sharing the way we experience the world, which for many is an extension of personality. It is the communication of intimate concepts.  Art is in how the media is used or  the way in which the content is expressed.

Beauty is rather a measure of affect, a measure of emotion. In the context of art, beauty is determined by the  successful communication between the artist and the perceived one. Beautiful art is successful in portraying the artist’s most thoughtful intended emotions. So beauty in art is eternally subjective.

Art is a means to state an opinion or a feeling, or else to create a different view of the world, whether it be inspired by the work of other people or something invented that’s entirely new. Beauty alone is not art, but art can be made of, about or for beautiful things. Beauty can be found in a snowy mountain scene: art is the photograph of it shown to family, However, art is not necessarily positive: it can be deliberately hurtful or displeasing: it can make you , it evokes an emotion in you, then it is art.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite,” said the historian George Bancroft. The nature of beauty is one of the most fascinating riddles of philosophy. Is beauty universal? How do we know it? How can we predispose ourselves to embrace.

 different perspective of beauty 

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