BS: What represents beauty to you?

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: GUEST,John O'Lennaine
Date: 06 Jun 04 - 09:17 AM

Beauty? My fiddle.

Not necesarily the music I make on it but the shape, size, intricacy, delicacy, the incredibly bizarre way it needs to by sawn with a bow, and most of all the immense power which lies latent within such a frail and relatively tiny object.

Well that's how I feel about it anyway.

John

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: Mooh
Date: 06 Jun 04 - 09:10 AM

Besides, my family, the female form, the first bass of the season to be fooled by my clumsy angling, certain guitars...

...there's a spot on the Niagara Escarpment (Ontario Canada) which overlooks Georgian Bay that reveals no evidence of white man's arrival on this continent and returns me to some primitive state every time.

Oh, and the Mudcat.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 06 Jun 04 - 07:51 AM

Yes ya dirty old sod! lol but I suppose you've got a point (I think that's the right choice of word.......

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: Sooz
Date: 06 Jun 04 - 05:21 AM

Johnny, trust you to lower the tone of this philosophical thread. (Mike says what about Emma?)

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: Strollin' Johnny
Date: 06 Jun 04 - 04:52 AM

Kylie

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: GUEST,An English Patriot
Date: 06 Jun 04 - 12:28 AM

Beauty in what? A art? In nature? In women?

In art, I go for medieval cathedrals. Awesome tributes to the men who made them.

I like beauty in nature as represented in the countryside. Rolling hills, hedgerows and patchwork fields,and pleanty of trees. I preferablylike to see it in summer.

As for women, that is more difficult. Perfectly proportoned features with a small nose and mouth, large eyes, and flawless skin.

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: Ebbie
Date: 06 Jun 04 - 12:21 AM

I suspect we have cheapened the concept of beauty in overuse. There are many things in a wide range that I call beautiful, including manmade things. But when I thrill to the depths of what is real beauty to me it's usually something sensuous like light shining through greenery, or the cool sun of autumn warming the rich odors of fallen leaves or snowcapped mountains reflected into still waters, emotions for which I have no words.

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 05 Jun 04 - 10:12 PM

I make a fairly decent living as a visual artist - a potter. That must mean that other people think I create objects of beauty. I guess they wouldn't spend their money on them if they thought they were ugly. But I don't believe I have ever created anything truly beautiful. I try to create something beautiful every time I go into my studio, but I never succeed. Beauty for me is a Platonic ideal. It is a goal, but one which is beyond the capabilities of mere mortals like me to achieve. The best we can hope for is to eliminate ugly and hope that the result is an approximation of beauty.


I can see beauty in the works of other artists such as Brancusi's Bird in Space or Dale Chihuly's blown glass, but I wonder if any artist's work has ever lived up to his own personal ideal of beauty.

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: Sam L
Date: 05 Jun 04 - 09:29 PM

Fall. Beauty contains pity because we know it must die.

Subject: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 05 Jun 04 - 08:34 PM

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"
For me personally, beauty is the Spring, when trees, flowers and other "growing things" are important.....what represents beauty to you?