The Objective Definition of Beauty
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The Objective Definition of Beauty
Some proportions and shapes are more pleasing to the eye than other proportions and shapes. The same for sounds and tastes and so forth. Yet is there some hidden elegant commonality from all these very human concepts which would lead to the objective definition of beauty? Are you in possession of the secret recipe? What is it? A equation? A poem? Can it have meaning yet be poetry? Is it credible to declare beauty in a pretty human form? merely transient flesh and blood? Your call? What is the objective definition of beauty to you?
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Re: The Objective Definition of Beauty
It's in the eye of the beholder man. Sho'nuff.
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Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
Re: The Objective Definition of Beauty
Some of it's in the ear, too...
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Re: The Objective Definition of Beauty
piscy know man. He KNOWS! 
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Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
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But not too much eh?
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Absolutely.Brian Peacock wrote:But not too much eh?
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Curves.
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While there is a market for shit, there will be assholes to supply it.
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Górecki: Symphony number 3, especially the 2nd and 3rd movements. Gives me goosebumps every time I hear it.
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Well, if we're going to start that...
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Real America....say no more.
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Re: The Objective Definition of Beauty
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Salome receives the Head of John the Baptist (c.1710)
How is something so gruesome and visceral also so compelling and, yes, beautiful?
How is something so gruesome and visceral also so compelling and, yes, beautiful?
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Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
Re: The Objective Definition of Beauty
Yeah but, does it give you goosebumps? That's the objective test of beauty, imo.hackenslash wrote:Well, if we're going to start that...
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It did indeed.
As did the Caravaggio, when I saw it in the National Gallery.
As did the Caravaggio, when I saw it in the National Gallery.
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