Wednesday, 5 September 2007

Where do you find beauty?

This is an illustration by Daniel Bejar and used for the Times supporting an article titled "Early Action Proving Crucial to Hearing Success". I've been ispired by the way he described the hearing problem. This picture seems to draw a strong agreement with its way of describing the article. I've found it is precise, harmonious: this picture could amount to the title itself, and I've found it beautiful.


Outlines or colors of certain object is not only element of beauty. One could see beauty when he or she finds what kind of meaning the object really has. Sometimes, people still see beauty even thought they don't know where the beauty comes from. I think those kind of responses are result of contaminated sense: usually by the mass media.

With comprehensive eyes one can see deep inside the object, spanning to history, culture, simple stimulation and spirit it may address. And along with that he or she probably is seeing the true beauties, which will become classic.

Tuesday, 4 September 2007

Etymology of aesthetic

Asesthetic

The term aesthetics comes from the Greek αισθητική (aisthetike) meaning "sensation" from αίσθησιν (aisthesin) or "sense". It was appropriated by Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten in 1735 to mean "the science of how things are known via the senses." The term aesthetics was used in German, shortly after Baumgarten introduced its Latin form (Aesthetica), but was not widely used in English until the beginning of the 19th century. However, much the same study was called studying the "standards of taste" or "judgments of taste" in English, following the vocabulary set by David Hume prior to the introduction of the term "aesthetics."

from Wikipedia