Art Does Not Need To Be Pretty

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” – Confucius. Beauty has had a specific image or ideal for the past 100 years from the help of pop culture and advertisements that women are constantly viewing daily. We can go through the different ideas of beauty through idolized women in the past who were often considered to be the ideal beautiful. With the help of makeup and the aid of different styled clothing, women were able to fit in to form into the ideal beauty.

What is beautiful? How do people define beauty? People view differently. Usually, we judge people, first, from his or her appearance then to their inherence. It is a common fact that appearance has an indirect

Well, firstly… What is beauty? By Oxford dictionary’s definition, beauty is defined by the “combination of qualities, such as shape, colour, or form, that pleases the aesthetic

The many qualities that beauty contains can affect who someone truly is in the outside. But those qualities do not define who someone is from the inside. According to “Hello, beautiful: what we talk about when we talk about beauty” by Arthur Krystal, it states “beauty is a mess, a sinkhole, a trap. Approach it philosophically

I think what appeals to me about the artist Henri Matisse was the use of color in his work. To Matisse the color and shapes of objects were feelings rather than the object themselves. At the same time, he invested the canvas with a thrilling color radiance, that, like smell (as Matisse himself observed), subtly but intensely suffuses the senses (Fiero 366).

Beauty is often measured on the appearance and the aesthetic value of art. Often this is the case. Beauty can be on the outside and many artworks do this extremely well. However, what about the beauty on the inside or the beauty in the story behind it? Beauty in our modern world looks beyond the inside and sees only the outside beauty. People idolize "beautiful" people because that is what society is doing. Not only in people, but also

Regarding the wide aspect of art, Georgia O’Keeffe, an American artist, said “filling a space in a beautiful way. That's what art means to me.” I think this means that anything that is beautiful to someone can be art; but something one person finds beautiful may not be to someone else. This is what causes art to be such a wide and distinct topic; everything depends on the person. Something I find beautiful and consider art could be unattractive to someone else. Although I do agree with the quotation said by Georgia O’Keeffe, I do not think a piece has to be attractive to be art. Many artists have purposely created an art piece to not be beautiful. To me, art is a way of expressing emotions in a way you think is unique and original. It is not

The face of beauty is ever changing and evolving over time to show how it affects not only women, but other objects as well. Beauty can best be described as by Merriam-Webster as “the quality of being physically attractive”, “the qualities in a person or a thing that give pleasure to the senses or the mind”, and “a beautiful woman”. Beauty is not an objective term, but a subjective term. In the documentary, “My Kid Could Paint That” Marla’s artwork was only beautiful to those that understood abstract artwork. Marla’s artwork was not your Picasso or van Gogh work, but her artwork was

People define beauty in many different ways, some people say beauty is based on the outwards appearance while others believe it’s what’s on the inside that makes people beautiful. I say beauty is a mixture of both outward appearance and what’s on the inside, however I do believe what’s on the inside has a bigger role in beauty then appearance. In The Odyssey Calypso holds Odysseus captive for seven years and while she is beautiful on the outside, even Odysseus admits she is more beautiful than his own wife, she is ugly because she keeps him there to please herself. Calypso knows he wants to go home to his Ithaca and family but keeps him against his will, intern this makes her ugly because if you are truly caring no matter how it hurts you,

I still see the subjects as beautiful. I think that the paintings are beautiful on a different level besides physical. Beauty does not have to always be physical. It can also be mentally and emotionally. The women were probably beautiful

Matisse was born Henri-Emile-Benoit Matisse in Le Cateau-Cambresis, France on December 31, 1869 to his mother and father Anna Heloise Gerard and Emile Hippolyte Matisse. He was the first son of the couple. Matisse's father was a grain merchant and his mother made hats and painted China. He grew up in nearby Bohain-en-Vermandois until the age of ten, when his father sent him to St. Quentin for high school. In ways that area hadn't changed much since Roman times. The young Matisse was an awkward youth who seemed ill-adapted to the rigors of the North; he hated the gelid winters. He was a pensive child and by his own account he was dreamy, frail and

The first appropriation, ‘Head VI’, was part of Bacon’s ‘1949 Head’ series where he based the figure in the painting on Velazquez’ ‘Innocent X’. Up until around the mid-1960s, Bacon created approximately 45 appropriations of Velazquez’ painting. While not completely known why Bacon was obsessed with the ‘Innocent X’ portrait, it is speculated that it may have been a psychological connection Bacon made in regards to his sexuality or the ‘Holy Father’ image reminding him of his traumatic feelings towards his father, of whom his was rejected and abused.

Society is full of ideas pertaining to the definition of beauty and has been controversial for centuries. Beauty is visually pleasing and can satisfy the other senses as well, but it cannot be fully defined through only the senses. It blossoms from the soul; it is an epitome of serene emotion. Beauty is imperative to the mentality our society maintains as if the world would transform to be completely dark without it. The word “Beauty” originates from the Anglo-French term beute meaning “physical attractiveness” and “goodness and courtesy” (dictionary.com, n.p.) Beauty is charming, mesmerizing, graceful, and captivating. Brutality is invaluable because beauty brings peace to the mind.

The definition of beauty is a characteristic of a person, animal, place, object, or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure, meaning, or satisfaction. Beauty has negative and positive influences on mostly people. Beauty is described by the inside and outside of us. Due to beauty, our self-esteem has been hurt dramatically, especially towards girls. Beauty is not always about our outside looks but it’s about our inside personality also.

This painting is Bacon’s self-portrait at his age of 60, 1969. It has typical elements of Bacon’s paintings: distorting face, smudged form and unexpected use of colors. The brightness in the painting was low and the brushwork is rough and fast. Just like his self-portrait, his paintings often depicted deformed figures, trapped in lines or boxes with confusing spatial orders. His artworks reveal a sense of loneliness and anxiety.