is there anything in the world that is so beautiful that your mind just can't comprehend it? and it seems "ugly" to you, because it's impossible to believe it's so beautiful?
I don't know what I'm saying, heh, but I'd love to see your answers to this :)
2007-11-16 22:31:56 · 15 answers · asked by Alex 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I find myself answering your question as yes it is highly probable to find ugliness in what appears initially to be beautiful
It is easier to find beauty in what other people may call ugly. Sometimes, the beauty shines through uglyness in a manner that takes your breath away, makes you gasp and that instant changes your perception of what is beautiful or ugly.
On the other hand, a place may look so manicured, arranged so perfectly and life goes through its environment so flawlessly, including its people, yet you do not find this place lovely at all.
Why not? Your idea of beauty might get challenged here, yet you are absolutely sure, the place was ugly, and maybe you will say "Uh , it was ok, what do you want me to say?"
You were probably looking for its soul and could not find it anywhere.
2007-11-17 00:36:59 · answer #1 · answered by QuiteNewHere 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends what you consider to be beautiful. I once did an art project about attraction and beauty. Everybody did paintings of nature, children, conventionally attractive people and so on and so forth. Normal ideas of what beauty is for "normal" people pleasing people...
I being a questioning and analytical soul (I like to look outside the box of normality), decided to do paintings of what people would call freaks. Disfigured, ugly people. My lecturer was very confused and asked me if I had understood the project...
What I was trying to say was that if you put a conventionally attractive or beautiful person (aesthetically) next to a person who was maybe a victim of a car crash and their face was damaged. If you knew nobody could see who you were looking at, there is a good chance people would look at the disfigured person because they are very strange and some people are drawn to strangeness or things against the norm. This does not apply to everyone as some people like the safety of conventional beauty but it answers your question. Ugliness can be considered very beautiful or attractive depending on what your idea of beauty is, which as everyone knows is very subjective.
Alot of artists are inspired by damaged things. In this case, the more damaged the more beautiful. I think artists are all looking for beauty too. The persuit of perfection is boring and frustrating and normally turns out to be the least beautiful because it tries too hard.
Hope this helps.
2007-11-17 07:17:01 · answer #2 · answered by Dan G 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
hmm, interesting question....
I don't think it can. I think something can be so beautiful you are so ovherwelmed and overcome that you can't take it all in at once.
This doesnt make it by any means ugly though, if anything it is more beautiful and amazing, and maybe a little confusing...
Have a beautiful day :)
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2007-11-17 06:38:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If we can't see the beauty in something, we usually deem it ugly. Or things we just can't wrap our minds around. The giant heads on Easter Island...not beautiful, aesthetically, but fascinating all the same.
2007-11-17 10:49:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Todd Rundgren unknowingly addressed this issue in one of his tunes from twenty years or so ago, which contains the line, "Love between the ugly, is the most beautiful love of all".
I think that about nails it.
2007-11-17 07:43:49 · answer #5 · answered by mrm 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
two things come to mind:
1) People who get too much plastic surgery to obtain the "perfect" facial features. After a while, their faces look strange with stretched almond-like eyes, high cheeks, wrinkleless foreheads, puffed lips. This is not a perfect example of what you're asking though.
2) In the Bible, with the exception of Moses, nobody could look upon God. Truly nobody could comprehend it, truly He must be beautiful, but to look upon Him would kill you.
2007-11-17 06:43:30 · answer #6 · answered by susiegasser 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
But if a beauty is so profound as to create envy,
than envy can make it ugly.
There is nothing beautiful or ugly, but thinking makes it so.
2007-11-17 06:40:43 · answer #7 · answered by Phoenix Quill 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes the firstborn from Jericho
"Neither light nor dark, both terrible and beautiful to behold, it disturbed the Almighty, who banished this flawed creation into the Abyss forsaken and unloved."
2007-11-17 06:40:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
There is innate beauty in imperfection.
Perfection in beauty is marred by it's own flawlessness.
2007-11-17 07:07:48 · answer #9 · answered by Ralph 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To me, new york city, its beautiful in its own way, high skyscrapers, bigger then life, and then theres an ugly side to it, because it's a concrete jungle
2007-11-17 06:54:11 · answer #10 · answered by Whole 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋