Unit 1 Beauty

“It is often said that beauty is subjective and exists purely in the eye of the beholder” (p14). We can clearly perceive this change in the different artworks from different periods. At the dawn of human civilization, the female body was represented through sculpture or painting and conveyed a reverence for fertility and vitality. The female body was often considered to be more fertile.

People were seeking proportions and bodily dimensions in the later Western art, which became a popular aesthetic trend at the time as people began to focus more and more on the muscularity and strength of the human body. This became a popular aesthetic trend at the time. The beauty of the female body in the medieval reclining nude, represented by the “Birth of Venus”, became the hallmark of the time. Nowadays, artists make their protagonists use this pose, but the subject is changed from a god to a human being. The beauty of the human body is natural, objective existence, but also subjective pleasure feelings, is the cohesion and manifestation of their own natural beauty, it can give myself with great psychological satisfaction and the psychological enjoyment of self beauty, but also to others with aesthetic beauty, so that people-pleasing to the eye. The pursuit of external physical beauty is the natural nature of human beings. Cosmetic surgery and some technological products are helping modern people to shape the human body and appearance in line with contemporary aesthetic standards, which is not exactly the same aesthetic trend as ancient natural beauty. Aesthetics covers a wide range and the aesthetic sense is not only formal beauty but also includes social and economic conditions as well as environmental, religious, political and other factors. We can clearly find the history of the development of human aesthetics in the different social stages of human pursuit and environment in different fields.

The exploration of human aesthetics is a manifestation of the progress of human social civilization and is closely related to the development of human beings themselves. This inquiry will cause us to think: What is the world? What are we? Where did we come from and where are we going? Who really makes human beings? We come from the simplest and will eventually leave the world in the simplest way.

 

 

One thought on “Unit 1 Beauty

  1. Tianyu, good summary and engagement with the text. Although, I am not sure that altering the body via cosmetic surgery is a sign of progress. It sounds from this summary that you do? is that right?

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *