is everything beautiful in its own way?

Question

is an old gnarled and sun bleached fence post covered in lichen beautiful? a flood lit factory wreathed in fog? the sky reflected in the puddles of wheel ruts on a demolition site? needle sharp rain on a cold, grey day blown by a wind that cuts to the bone. why are portraits of old people so much more beautiful? is there beauty in desolation? or are you with the chocalate box school of aesthetics?

Answer 1

Yes, even a yahoo answers question can be beautiful, like yours. I'm seeing the fence and feeling the chill! Like you I find beauty everywhere. I had a patient that turned 100 while in the hospital. I remember helping her bathe, getting ready for her family to come over to visit. I thought she was one of the most beautiful women I had ever seen, with her snow white hair and sparkling blue eyes still full of so much life and wisdom!

Answer 2

As many say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder; what one person may view as hideously disgusting, another may view it as beautiful and perplexing. I can see beauty in an old gnarled and sun bleached fence post covered in lichen, as well as a flood lit factory wreathed in fog. There is beauty in anything, it all just depends on the viewer. There can be beauty in desolation, you just have to look hard enough, but one desolation is another creation. I don't get the last part of your inquiry, however...

Answer 3

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder and to a certain extent that is true. Everyone perceives things differently which is why we get differences of opinion. In life there is always yin and yang. Every thing in life has a beauty if we look with an open mind. whether it is the beauty of the spiders web at dawn with the dew drops which looks vastly different to the same web later in the day to the smile on a humans face which will radiate across cultures/ languages. Beauty is how and what an individual perceives it to be.

Answer 4

There is beauty in all simply because we have appreciation for all that there is. Those of us who see beauty in a gnarled ...fence post can see the the form of the post and can surmise that the faded color was done by the sun.We also see character in the lines of a aged face and the remnants of beauty because we do not judge the face as being old and of no further use. I know people who see beauty in little for the first thing they'll notice are the flaws, the imperfections. Perhaps the difference is that we see also through the eyes of our spirit,the state of our souls. And also we who see beauty all around us recognize the handiwork of God in all.

Answer 5

Hypothetically, yeah.
Realistically... in our culture, no.
If you want to really delve deep (lol) you could say that the way something is presented or the situation that it's in can make it beautiful.
Your words, describing those typically 'ugly' things, make for a beautiful question.
A photographer might find some of your images beautiful.
Or people that understand that something is better than nothing, such as a person isolated in a windowless room for a yr. seeing any scene outside or a mother who tried to conceive for 10 yrs who adopts a special needs child that others wouldnt see beauty in.
In short, it's about perception... and we can be a rather ungrateful bunch.

Answer 6

"perfection is the fulfillment implicit in art."Imperfection is life all forms in life are imperfect but the function of art is to see the radiance through the imperfection."
"The artist opens up the forms of the work to the transcendent"

Beauty is art pretty flowers are nice and they are art What Nieche wrote the ascetics of art are "nothing but applied physiology"
However there is a range or possible degree of art that is beyond beauty namely the sublime. " that witch arouses a sense of awe and reverence and a sense of vastness and power outreaching human comprehension"
Niche "art is the proper task of life art is life's metaphysical exercise art is worth more than truth."

When I am looking at what joyce described as proper art " the mind is arrested and raised above desire and loathing" I know im looking at art.
If I had a choice of impoper art I would choose desire, Like pretty flowers as apposed to the "PISS CHRIST". I dont want propaganda in my living room.So I guess im a choclatey school box kind of guy. IF they cant make it sublime they preach I dont want a sermon in my living room. real art belongs in museams where it cannot be possesed .

Answer 7

What you describe is beauty. It is far from desolation. You are observing something that is not superficially asethic but full of narrative. These images "cut to the bone" like that wind because in them you see a story. Your imagination is triggered. You are seeing art in life.

Answer 8

A steaming turd is probably beautiful to a dung beetle. Everythiing has its own place and the feeling of beauty, by the individual, is afforded to things by that individual. Beauty isnt held in the object itself, but in the objectifier. Therefore nothing is inherently beautiful. Its all to do with what people choose to bestow on the subject.

Answer 9

Things can be beautiful in their own way but it depends on if the person looking at it can see it that way. e.g, I used to live in Middlesborough and everyone (including myself) moaned about the industrial chimneys on the power plant. Whenever i go back i always feel a warm fuzzy feeling when i drive past them. The sight is not always beautiful but sometimes the memory is.

Answer 10

You have a very poetic mind: and have found a way to create beauty in yr surroundings! It's like poetry the way you have spoken about your thoughts!
Yes; there is beauty all around us; and not just the `picture perfect' stuff either; as you grace everything with a glance; so does it come to life!