There is a common misconception that beauty has a definition and description that holds for all things. One cannot cast an eye on art and form an opinion that will be universally accepted. Art is usually in the eye of the beholder, although that does not mean that everything is beautiful in its own way…
Ray Stevens wrote the song Everything is Beautiful…click here to listen
Everything is beautiful in it’s own way
Like a starry summer night
On a snow covered winter’s day
And everybody’s beautiful in their own way
Under God’s Heaven
The world’s gonna find the way
There is none so blind as he who will not see
We must not close our minds
We must let our thoughts be free
For every hour that passes by
You know the world gets a little bit older
It’s time to realize that beauty lies
In the eyes of the beholder
And everything is beautiful in its own way
Like a starry summer night
On a snow covered winter’s day, ah, sing it children
Everybody’s beautiful in their own way
Under God’s Heaven
The world’s gonna find a way
We shouldn’t care about the length of his hair
Or the color of his skin
Don’t worry about what shows from without
But the love that lives within
We’re gonna get it all together now
Everything is gonna work out fine
Just take a little time to the look on the good side my friend
And straighten it out in your mind
Everything is beautiful in it’s own way
Like a starry summer night
On a snow covered winter’s day, ah, sing it again children
Everybody’s beautiful in their own way
Under God’s Heaven
The world’s gonna find a way,
one more time
Everything is beautiful in its own way
Like a starry summer night
On a snow covered winter’s day
The Christian messsage of love and tolerance is admirable and was of its time, the 1960s. But not everything is beautiful. Ugliness exists, but not everyone agrees on its definition. Brutalism was a movement in architecture that had many enthusistic supporters, but those forced to live in concrete tower blocks might not find brutalism aesthetically pleasing..
Aesthetic, the opposite of anaesthetic, is supposed to wake up our senses. Shock tactics in art confronts viewers with unpleasant concepts e.g. the portrait of Myra Hindley made using children’s handprints or Damien Hirst’s animals in glass boxes..
Waking up our senses does not have to be shocking. Many things are beautiful in their own way. Why not make a llist and update it for all the new things that you find beautiful,
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