BS: What represents beauty to you?

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?

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: 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: 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: 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: Strollin' Johnny
Date: 06 Jun 04 - 04:52 AM

Kylie

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: 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: 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: 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: GUEST,John O'Lennaine
Date: 06 Jun 04 - 09:21 AM

The smell of the case too.

John

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: freda underhill
Date: 06 Jun 04 - 09:41 AM

When I was young and I looked at aged faces, I saw wrinkles. Now I look at those faces, and see the bone structure, the shape of the person's face, their expression, and all the lines and experience on their face. Sometimes, I see an old face that is beautiful, through all of this.

I was with my ex partner's mother when she died. She was lying back, and for some reason her face was very relaxed, and she looked young, and glowing. She looked young, innocent and beautiful at that time, despite having looked very old and haggard in the months leading up to her death.

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: dianavan
Date: 06 Jun 04 - 12:24 PM

Well Freda, I have to agree with you again.

My mother-in-law is the most beautiful creature alive. She's 92 years old. She raised 13 kids with an alcoholic husband. She attends mass almost every day. She is a tower of strength.

She never complains. She speaks softly. She's radiant. She walks proudly. Her eyes sparkle. She's kind. She's forgiving. I could go on and on. I think she's an angel or a saint or both. I have never encountered a human being with such grace and beauty.

As far as nature goes - give me phosphoresence in the summer sea.

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: GUEST,Willy McBoyne
Date: 06 Jun 04 - 12:56 PM

The marching season!

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: mack/misophist
Date: 06 Jun 04 - 01:56 PM

Nature, mostly. Since death is a necessary and desirable part of life, I'm trying to learn to appreciate decay. It's harder to do. Wing tip shoes and oil refineries, too. True ugliness has it's own beauty.

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: kendall
Date: 06 Jun 04 - 06:59 PM

Beauty is simply the absence of ugly.

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: Snuffy
Date: 06 Jun 04 - 07:01 PM

I know quite a few beautiful people - young, old, thin, fat - but they all have this luminescent quality: something inside them just shines out like a beacon.

I haven't expressed it very well, but if you're beautiful inside it will show on the outside

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: beardedbruce
Date: 07 Jun 04 - 02:44 AM

The shade of blue I have seen in only two places- Looking down into a running nuclear reactor, through 17 feet of water, and looking down into the heart of a glacier near Banff.

The smile of my muse.

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 07 Jun 04 - 04:12 AM

Anything or anyone that makes me take a sudden breath and stops that moment in time.

..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: Gurney
Date: 07 Jun 04 - 04:39 AM

Those magical sunny Winter days, very early Spring, Summer showers, and Autumn rivers. And Una Stubbs.

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: Sweetfia
Date: 07 Jun 04 - 07:49 AM

A big fat mushroom grilled to perfection, with the juices dripping down your arm as you eat it...mmm...gorgeousity!!

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: s6k
Date: 07 Jun 04 - 07:51 AM

thats just disgusting.

a thunderstorm

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: Strollin' Johnny
Date: 07 Jun 04 - 08:16 AM

The view in any direction from the summit of Ben Nevis on a fine, clear Summer's day. The approach to St. Kilda, close-hauled on a windy, sunny day, with a plume of vapour streaming downwind from the summit of Boreray. Sunset at anchor in Loch Scavaig (Skye) with the Black Cuillin silhouetted against the deep blue of the sky. Mrs. Johnny. And Emma Bunton. :0)

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 07 Jun 04 - 08:19 AM

for me beauty is in anything that makes me joyful - a smile from my grandchildren, a piece of music that gets deep down into my soul, the English countryside at any time of year, the man I love just saying 'hallo love'.

There is beauty all around us if we look.

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 07 Jun 04 - 09:41 AM

Hey John (strollin' johnny) we have something very much in common then....I too think Emma Bunton has got something about her......won't talk about what...or I might be accused of being a dirty old man!!!! lol. Be Blessed.

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: Sam L
Date: 07 Jun 04 - 05:54 PM

The girls I grew up knowing are still somehow more beautiful than any others I've ever met. But sadly, they've grown up to be garden variety idiots and lunatics. So magical, yet so mundane.

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: GUEST, The Madcap Laughs
Date: 07 Jun 04 - 05:59 PM

The sax solo on Dark Side of the Moon.

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 07 Jun 04 - 06:18 PM

Kendall said that to him beauty is simply the absence of ugly.

I tend to disagree. I don't think ugliness and beauty are antithetical at all.

If you look at Picasso's Guernica, there is no question in my mind that it's ugly. And yet, that ugliness invokes an emotional reaction to which I must assign the concept of beauty.   It's in the evocation of the emotion that the beauty lies.

I'm sure you (or least most of you) will agree that prettiness is not beauty. But, as I see it, a painting, we'll say, that's merely pretty misses being beautiful by not evoking an emotion appropriate to the thought.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: s6k
Date: 07 Jun 04 - 07:13 PM

amen to that Madcap Laughs...! a fellow Floydian, great stuff!

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: Deckman
Date: 07 Jun 04 - 07:33 PM

Her name was Marlys. Bob

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: akenaton
Date: 07 Jun 04 - 07:34 PM

An Argyll sunset.
Always tempered by the thought,that far beyond it,lies America..Ake

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: Amergin
Date: 07 Jun 04 - 07:49 PM

my own reflection

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: Sam L
Date: 07 Jun 04 - 11:57 PM

The sax solo? Please, baby lemonade.

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 08 Jun 04 - 04:18 AM

A third vote to Madcap Laughs and that solo from Dark Side. I remember the first time I heard it. I became instantly dizzy, and that moment of breath-taking joy was delicious.

Those memories of beauty...I had another one yesterday at Regent's Park, wandering amongst the thousands of roses. There was one in particular, called Double Delight-I bent down to smell it, and it was as if someone had opened up my brain and poured pure light inside.

MORE MORE! Share your beauties with us!..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: beardedbruce
Date: 08 Jun 04 - 04:26 AM

Longwood Gardens, SW of Phillidelphia? (how far is that from the home of Mudcat?

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: GUEST,Richard
Date: 08 Jun 04 - 05:36 AM

To Amergin. Yes pal....when I look in my wardrobe mirror,if in bed, I can see the beauty of the fields,hedges,trees and other stuff of nature. But if you mean when you look in the mirror you see the beauty of yourself then you don't know the significance of your minute role in the beauty of nature and have some sort of delusions of grandeur. Wonder what other people would think of your reflection.
Having said that, I suppose you must be extremely beautiful anyway.
Our God thought so when He made you.

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: s6k
Date: 08 Jun 04 - 05:54 AM

northern lights

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: muppett
Date: 08 Jun 04 - 06:42 AM

My daughter and my grandson

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: GUEST,Noddy
Date: 08 Jun 04 - 08:24 AM

Sod you Amergin I was going to say that.

But then I have seen MY reflection!

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: GUEST,noddy
Date: 08 Jun 04 - 08:25 AM

sitting on top of a mountain just gazing around no matter the weather.

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: freda underhill
Date: 08 Jun 04 - 09:36 AM

in the morning when i wake up, i look through my window. I see trees and leaves, and the sunshine and shadows on the leaves, and a bit of blue sky. it's always lovely!

sometimes in the evening I like to go and sit in our backyard. we have opened it up and share it with neighbours - i sit on a bench in the garden, under the stars, and enjoy listening to the frogs.

these are beautiful moments!

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: bflat
Date: 08 Jun 04 - 10:10 AM

Nature; most of the arts and righteousness.

Ellen

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 08 Jun 04 - 11:02 AM

Amen Ellen. Be Blessed.

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: bflat
Date: 08 Jun 04 - 06:30 PM

Thank you, Georgiansilver.

Ellen

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: Sweetfia
Date: 09 Jun 04 - 04:48 AM

My horse Charmer...when I was given her it felt like all my dreams had come true at once. It took years of praying, wishing and dreaming before she was finally mine...and nothing is going to take her away from me.

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: CharlieA
Date: 09 Jun 04 - 06:53 AM

the north cornwall coast

a fresh baked cake

a smile

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: el ted
Date: 09 Jun 04 - 06:55 AM

Clingfilm.

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: Strollin' Johnny
Date: 09 Jun 04 - 07:48 AM

A sheep I met one day on Higger Tor................JOKING!! :0)

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: death by whisky
Date: 09 Jun 04 - 08:13 AM

while I was in the garden I came accross a foxglove, there was a big bumblebee going in and out of the bells.The foxglove was wild,unplanned.A moment of beauty.

Subject: RE: BS: What represents beauty to you?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 09 Jun 04 - 11:12 AM

John....Strollin' Johnny....First Emma Bunton, which I can well understand......but SHEEP!!!!!!!! This has given me somewhat of a woolly opinion of you my friend. Any lesser man and you may have "got my goat". Be Blessed!