is the emotion conveyed by something beautiful more important than the details of how it looks?

Answer 1

Beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder, and as such is totally emotional in content. Only when we stop to parse whatever we have considered beautiful does it enter into other realms and in so doing, often loses its beauty for us.

Answer 2

Demoting language to the primacy of emotion should be suspect. That we perceive an object as beautiful at all depends on a holistic network of social semiotics. The whole may be more than the sum of the parts, of course it is, but that you are connected to that sublime element is in no short part due to your refinement of aesthetic judgment through language. Unconceptualized content is absurd. Your witnessing an emotion may not reveal any linguistic reason at all, but that doesn't make the emotion-itself more important than all the necessary conditions to have that experience.

Consider a poem.
The details produce an emotion.
Can we then discard the vehicle?
The emotion is the only thing that matters.. but each word matters to you, is not just a vessel for meaning but engages your connection to nature, or has a stake in the truth, insofar as you engage in the use of the sign.

Answer 3

Embedded in the conveyed emotions are the details of how it looks. A painting of dark, foreboding clouds will probably convey an emotion of dread, fear, or isolation but could also be considered "beautiful". As far as the details go, the painting wouldn't convey those emotions if it didn't have elements such as dark, foreboding clouds.

http://www.jssgallery.org/Other_Artists/Andrew_Wyeth/wyeth.jpg

What is your real question?

Answer 4

I would say emotions and aesthetics have their own merits. Something can be beautiful without a proper meaning just like something can be meaningful without being beautiful. I see them both as aspects which exist in varying degrees in all things.

The question would best be answered by examining the subject in question on a case-by-case basis. For example, the emotion in one painting might be more important than its aesthetics, but the same might not be true for another painting. The same might be true of subjects which are created in different mediums or categorized in different genres (which in a way might be precisely WHY they are categorized in those genres). Even then the answer would probably vary from person to person.

Answer 5

Yes, indeed, 100% true!!

Beauty is a quality and any descriptive details can not do justice to its visual impact as a whole....... moreover, descriptions based on detailed words assume it has the same effect on everyone which is not true..... in other words, beauty impact depends not only on the imparting object but also on the receiving subject which is why the famous saying that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder!! The emotions that arise in the mind of the beholder shape his real understanding of the beautiful object.

Answer 6

Of course... A great piece of art, my 2yr old daughter's eyes and the cosmos are beyone definition. Sometimes emotions are our only form of expression, I can't even describe how I feel about truley beautiful things, maybe only through poetry.

Answer 7

I'd like to use the Penny to answer your question.....

There was reason as to why to mint the coin we know as the penny, any longer.

Reason being is the value of the penny and the cost to mint it, is not the same. In fact, it would cost more to make it, than to spend it..... So, the government may stop making pennies.......

That brings us to the dollar

The dollar, is supposed to be worth 100 cents..... But, it is not....

We take the "Face Value" of a dollar as worth a dollar......

When, in fact, its value is worth no more than 56 to 60 cents.....

What does this mean to beauty?....... Face Value is not worth what is inside of it...... That's where its true worth is found....

Not in the looks of it......


Your sister,
Ginger

Answer 8

Yes.

Answer 9

YES