Topic for Found Art Tuesday March 6, 2007: BEAUTY

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.. is it? or is there a common beauty everyone can recognize? is it standardized by someone else (e.g. TV?) is it something we learn to appreciate or is it an instinct that we're born with?

Have you seen the campaign for real beauty? (by a soap company geared to improve sales and gain customers and somehow trying to make a change in beauty's definition by the media. Will the succeed?)

Taken from Wikipedia:

Beauty is a quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations (such as shape, color, sound, etc.), a meaningful design or pattern, or something else (such as personality). Said another way, "beauty" is a quality of a person, object, place, or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure, affirmation, meaning, or goodness. The subjective experience of "beauty" often involves the interpretation of some entity as being in balance and harmony wit nature. This leads to powerful feelings of attraction and emotional well-being.

In its most profound sense, beauty may engender a salient experience of positive reflection about the meaning of one's own existence. An "object of beauty" is anything that reveals or resonates with personal meaning. Hence religious and moral teachings often focus on the divinity and virtue of beauty, and to assert natural beauty as an aspect of a spirituality and truth.

What is BEAUTIFUL to you?

Comments

[tanaya]

Oh, I have been meaning to email you this link for a week now. I think that it might be an interesting way to increase awareness for your Found Art project.

http://dropspots.org/

you can actually post the location of your art (or any other objects). people can search by address or zip code onthe site, to see where people have left things. It is still a small site, but I'm guessing it will get bigger over time.

have a happy weekend!