Beauty

I consider myself a rational person; I think that is why I have such a problem with this argument. In a rationale argument there is an answer and a reason behind it. If we are trying to find beauty then we cannot argue that something is beautiful all the time. The argument that something is beautiful is not something that any two people can agree with all the time. There are personal variances in each of our lives that will change our opinions, sometimes subtly and sometimes with great impact.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder but it doesn’t mean that there is something that more people will find more beautiful than something else. For me the most beautiful things in life are out in nature usually without human intrusion. These are normally beautiful with regards to everyone’s standards. With regards to art beauty is a little more complicated. I would say that beautiful art is aesthetically pleasing, invokes emotion, or communicates with the beholder. High art I would say invokes good emotions and communicates good and valuable things to the individual. I would also say high art is intellectually intelligent as well. It might stem from my more intellectual side. My girlfriend gets frustrated with me for the same reason; I pay attention more to the intellectual things than the emotional things.

Maybe it is the left brain right brain argument that keeps me from enjoying these types of debates. Maybe I just enjoy answers that are definitive and don’t like the gray in between the black and white. Maybe I haven’t been involved in these debates enough, are they like acquired tastes. Whatever the reason I have always tried to experience things with an open mind and to not go off of others opinions too often and will continue to do that in my life.