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Feb 20, 2016 · Isobel Harbison argues that beauty, beyond skin deep, is always relevant. There is an irony to the editor’s decision to invite a female art critic to advocate for beauty in art, and her male counterpart to dismiss the same quality.
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John Smith, artist and lecturer. Born in Walthamstow, east...
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8 brilliant definitions of beauty, from Aristotle to Aguilera. What is beauty? It’s one of the oldest questions in Western philosophy. Once, great thinkers considered it to be a value as solid...
- What Is The Definition of Beauty?
- What Is Beauty in Art?
- A Short History of Beauty in Art
- What Other Artists Think of Beauty
- What Do Critics Say About Beauty?
- The Beauty in Ugliness and The Ugliness in Beauty
- Should Your Work Be Beautiful?
Without resorting to a dictionary, we can define beauty as a quality that attracts us. A visual feast. Something that brings joy or piques interest. A visual and emotional appreciation. But we can be as drawn to ugliness as we are to beauty. Think of a crooked tree next to a perfectly symmetrical one. It’s the warped and twisted branches that leave...
The subject of beauty has always been a thorny one for many artists and critics to wrestle with. It’s in part due to the difficulty of defining beauty. But it also reflects evolving attitudes over time to the place of the role beauty should occupy in our public and private lives and how – and whether – art should embody these rarefied qualities. We...
To consider where beauty stands in today’s art, let’s look to historical assessments of beauty in art. For instance, the man hailed by many as the “father of art history,” Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-68), composed his History of Ancient Artlong after the art of classical antiquity that he sought to study had been largely destroyed. That absenc...
Even putting aside JJ Winckelmann’s call for a sustained search for beauty even in those artworks that may not seem to yield it, there is plenty of reason for optimism about the role of beauty – or the lack of it – in the art of today. Beauty has, for one thing, re-entered the critical conversation in recent decades. The Dutch artist Marlene Dumas ...
As wordsmiths, art critics can often describe beauty better than us mere artists. Drawing these battle lines are such critics as JJ Charlesworth and Jonathan Jones. The former has reasoned that “beauty is one of those ideas that over the past 100 years or so has been slowly downgraded when it comes to considering the value of art… if anything, we [...
Do we still think of people with disabilities or deformities as unable to be beautiful? If I paint someone with a skin disease is it an ugly portrait? Is it degenerate art? Or shocking art? Or is it a dignified portrait of a beautiful soul, who appears a little different, physically speaking, to many others. Does your nude self-portrait conform to ...
So does beauty in art really matter? To use the firmest of clichés: beauty is fleeting. We would countenance today a cultural, moral, political and social attitude very different from those held by people in the past. That would take precedence across the globe. Once, capturing beauty was a key part of an artist’s role, but what about today? The yo...
Jul 25, 2016 · The Beauty Myth says that the highest and best purpose of art is to be visually beautiful. It also implies that creative work should look to the standard of beauty first when it wants to attract attention, communicate a message, or sell a product.
Aug 13, 2006 · Is being beautiful like tasting good to Bob (subjective) or being 5 kg (objective)? The saying “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” suggests subjective. But other sayings—“beauty is truth” or “beauty is eternal”—suggest there is some objective quality to beauty.
Sep 4, 2012 · Perhaps the most familiar basic issue in the theory of beauty is whether beauty is subjective—located ‘in the eye of the beholder’—or rather an objective feature of beautiful things.
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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, the oil interpretation of it hung in a gallery, or the music score recreating the scene in crotchets and quavers.
