Intro Question
Please list what you think is beautiful in your smartphone.
What did you choose?
A Google search for beauty and beautiful things will give you the following results.
Beauty search results include many photos of women.
The Bautiful Things search results include beautiful landscapes and vivid nature photos.
However, many of you have chosen to use something other than these piictures.
Some may have chosen music instead of picture.
Beautiful things are not only visible to the eye.
Nor is it only what you hear with sound.
There are many ‘beautiful things‘ around us as well as works of art. Not only things, but also ‘beautiful acts‘ and ‘beautiful scenery‘.
Then, is your choice something people will agree with, “Yes, it is beautiful”?
What you find beautiful may be something that everyone agrees on, or it may be something that only you find beautiful.
What is the difference between what is beautiful and what is not?
Is there objective beauty?
These topics will be considered many times in upcoming lessons.
One more thought.
What you have chosen is an art (or artwork)?
Let’s list some things that you consider to be ART.
What is Art?
Is the following things “art”?
a beautiful painting
Beautiful photos
Beautiful music
a beautiful singing voice
Beautiful speech voice
Beautiful face
Beautiful body
a beautiful landscape
a beautiful room
a beautiful friendship
Are all art beautiful?
Not all beautiful things are art.
Some works of art are not beautiful.
What is the difference between a work of art and a beautiful object?
A definition of art (of either the activity or the object) was to provide necessary and sufficient conditions;
it was to enable one to distinguish art from other things.
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