Beauty and Culture in The Ugly Duchess by Quinten Massys
The question of “what is art” depends on your own experiences, prejudices, beliefs, and values. Consider the definition of beauty and how it is culturally determined.
Go to http://www(dot)winifred(dot)cichon(dot)com/ideal_beauty/ to read and view G. W. Cichon-Hollander’s “A Short Introduction to the Ideal Beauty of the Human Body in Art,” which illustrates ideas of female beauty using masterpieces of art, from Venus of Willendorf to examples in the early 20th century.
In your original post, please discuss:
1. In your opinion, how is beauty defined? What factors, cultural or otherwise, do you think influence your perception of beauty?
2. In terms of art, is beauty an important quality? When might an artist create something that is NOT beautiful? Why?
3. Browse your textbook, visit MyArtsLab, http://www(dot)googleartproject(dot)com/, or a museum website. Find an artwork that you think is beautiful. Post or link to the image. Be sure to state the artist, title, and source.
Describe the artwork in detail. Why, in your opinion, is it beautiful?
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I believe physical beauty is not the totality of beauty. While this physical beauty appeals to people’s hearts and intellect, a more complex beauty appeals to people’s senses. For me, beautiful art points to the truth and reflects nature and society. There is beauty in a withered rose or a decaying apple as these point to the truth of suffering and society horrors. Beautiful art depicts people’s perceived ‘good’ and ‘bad’ in our society. My perception of beauty is affected by social expectations, media influences, and personality traits such as intelligence and humor. What gives an artwork beauty is the meaning it portrays and the senses it evokes.
Beauty is an essential quality in art because it allows an art viewer to get an unadulterated measure of what the art is worth/about or what the artist intended to portray. An artist might create an ‘ugly’ artwork when they are not concerned with invoking an aesthetic experience through their art (Janaway, 2014). For instance, in a painting of a rotti...
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