What is Beauty?
Beauty, as per Google, is ‘a combination of qualities, such as shape, colour, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight’. This definition is pretty straight forward. However, like design, the definition of beauty is also subjective. It doesn’t confine to one specific thought or ideology only.
Different Genres of Beauty
There are many different people in this world with a diversified visions and understandings of their life, and I’m guessing that when it comes to defining beauty, each one would have a set of their own versions -
Some might say that beauty is something that is sustainable which can overcome the test of times, like those paintings over the walls of the caves I talked about in my previous articles.
Some might also say that beauty is much more humane in nature. It is supposed to be benevolent. The best examples are the ways in which the Disney Princesses are portrayed in their respective movies.
Maybe, it is very pure and unadulterated as seen in the nature.
Or, maybe it is something that can be achieved through an artificial process of continuous hard work and shredding away impurities like remodelling a modern home.
Some might say that beauty is a symbol of novelty and originality like The Monalisa Painting while others may say that it is more like a composition just like sampling pre-existing music and giving them a proper modern touch.
Maybe, beauty is all about the intensions and the attitude of a person or an object or it is just simple, sober and honest where the elements are used in compatibility with their best capabilities.
A Better Place
What I feel is that beauty is a medium to make the world a better place. There might be even more versions of beauty, each new one being more unique than the previous. But the thing that is most commonly associated with beauty is the feeling it provides. When we come across an element of beauty, we generally feel good at an instant, like some kind of a magic. But, the main thing to focus is the creation of that beauty which can make others feel good about themselves. For generations, the creatives have produced the elements of beauty and made it available to the general masses and took the responsibility to carry it as a social mission. And now, it is our turn.
The truest form of beauty, no matter in how many different ways it is presented, is always rare. And we, as a human, can be priviledged enough to achieve that by devoting our lives to it, creating it, protecting it and nurturing it so that our world can be a better place. This process itself is something beautiful.
