BEAUTY+ the BEAST

BEAUTY+ UGLINESS

symmetry + proportion + harmony

plato

proportion, harmony, unity

the material world as it seems to us is not the real world, but only an image or copy of the real world. not a particular thing that is beautiful, but is instead the essence or manifestation of beauty.

beauty of the body and in the soul .. beauty is in knowledge, knowledge being innate to all It has no relationship to ‘art’ or ‘design’ as known now.

As inherited from Socrates

’That any kind of mixture that does not in some way or other possess measure of the nature of proportion will necessarily corrupt its ingredients and most of all itself …… Well, then, if we cannot capture the good in one form, we will have to take hold of it in a conjunction of three: beauty, proportion and truth.’

aristotle

order, symmetry

the golden mean is the desirable middle between two extremes, one of excess and the other of deficiency.

an attribute of beauty and beauty was a form of truth … in all activities – science, techne, politics.

techne – rational knowledge of craft … tacit knowledge .. in the body

Fibonacci

middle ages

ravenna

renaissance

Aesthetics is the philosophy that deals with the nature of beauty, art …

Baumgarten 1735 first known or thought to coin the term aesthetics derived from the Greek translation of it meaning - to perceive-feel-sense

Baumgarten’s original meaning was The Theory of Sensuous Knowledge

as a counter to logic or The Theory of Intellectual Knowledge.

Immanuel Kant 1724 - 1804

Kant, beauty is objective and universal; thus certain things are beautiful to everyone

the beautiful + the sublime pain+pleasure

Edmond Burke’s (1729 – 1797) Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful was published in 1757.

beauty " " " " " " "

" " " " " sublime divine"

things that are smooth, unthreatening and pleasurable

burke, e (1757) A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful.

things that are huge, obscure or terrible, arouse feelings that invigorate or elevate the mind.

welsh oak rodney graham

1998

lee freidlander

robert irwin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YajsEebw89g