Beauty, which feel like being really close to us who is involved visual art. How people can feel beautiful or how can people see beautiful were my huge question after studying little bit of aesthetics and art histories. I can feel there are lots of way to have beautiful emotions, so I just want to try to understand about way to feel beautiful, having beautiful emotions or things whatever about beauty.
This is the venus of willendorf(4.25inch), made between 28000 and 25000 BCE. It was founded in 1908, near village 'willendorf in lower Austria. I think this is good thing to start to talk about beauty. Ancient art's beauty is usually set by need and desire. Ancient needed food and manpower. This two desires would able to be solved by childbirth, so breast and hips which represent childbirth were the most important part for beauty. Therefore, hand, arm and face which do not relate to childbirth were almost disappear.
The most interesting point is face is skipped as well. It could mean face was nothing important at all even face is important point for human beauty in this age. This show each age, society or group could have totally different beauty point. And beautiful point can be everything, even somethings have been felt disgusting could be beautiful for someone or some society.
I can not sure about this small status was made to show beauty for that society, but I am sure about it showed beauty of that society is much more possible. This is because even one small child' drawing was tended to be beautiful. I believe art tend to aim an ideal for society or group. Age when religion was the most important, art described The Bible, The Buddhist scriptures and The Koran. Religion was the most important in that kind of age. In this way, most of art has been displayed beauty of society. In this way, the point human feel beauty can be background of object such as idea, religion and legend. Or It can be just simple part of visual looking.
This is an old painting of korean painter 'yun-bok shin', called 'Portrait of a Beauty'. This painting shows beautiful girl of 18 centuries' korean girl, but I am quite sure all korean won't feel she is beautiful, only based on looking. However I am feeling beautiful from this painting, because it is classic. The idea 'this painting shows beautiful girl of 18 centuries korean girl.' makes me thinking this is cool and beautiful with this normal looking girl.
The way of my thinking, the classic caused me feel cool from this painting is also change able just like I do not feel beautiful from looking of girl in the painting. Some previous ages were ignoring historical things. If I was living that kind of society, this painting would be just not ugly painting was meant to paint beautiful girl.
It does not mean all ages have specific ideal beauty, It does mean ideal beauty of society is very changeable. And it is not only based on visual looking.
This is what I have been studying about beauty of society.
