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Our sense of aesthetics: beauty and ugliness!
Everyone has a sense for beauty. Whether a beautiful landscape, a beautiful tiger, a beautiful peacock, or a beautiful rose or tree, or a beautiful human being, all are sources of aesthetical feeling. They raise in us some kind of admiration, some sort of delight. This sensual perception passes through our eye lens directly into our zone of aesthetics in our brain. Thus sense is abrupt, automatic, simple, direct and clear.
It is an immediate reaction for recognizing something beautiful. Beauty in all its manifestations play a pleasing role in our lives. Did you observe what nature bestows on animals, flora and humans some sort of a beauty touch, a beauty gown, that might persist for some time in the lives of the subject itself.
Whether beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder or it is inherent and radiant in the object itself is an open question. In other words do beautiful things appear to us as such or does their beauty belong to these things without our intervention? Can beauty exist on its own? Or do we have to be there in order to seize its beauty?
Although the question is open to debate and interpretations, it is all too clear that a peacock has all the ingredient of being beautiful for the eyes of the beholder. If so then what is the objective of beauty, in terms of its finality as a phenomenon? Take for example animals. Birds or other species have the quality of beauty within it in order to attract the female or the male. Likewise, in humans beings beauty is very much appreciated. For men, it is a beautiful woman and for women, a handsome man. It is the attraction quality that moves us to appreciate a beautiful woman or man.
Would you rather be married to Marilyn Monroe or Golda Meir, if you are a man, and would you ratherbe married to Tom Cruse or Mu'ammar al-Kaddhafi, if you are a woman? Of course, it goes without saying, marriage here is speculated at the level of beauty and not other merits,should it existin these subjects.
Aesthetics also covers the other side of the coin, namely ugliness. But by comparison and contrast humans are not attracted by ugliness which in most of us, humans that is, ugliness repulses us. It immediately has a repulsive impact on our eyes, while something beautiful has an immediate impact of attraction to it.
We as humans like and even love to look at a beautiful thing and we react negatively about an ugly thing. It might very well be argued that in everything there is beauty, and so is the case in ugliness. If you can find beauty in ugliness then there is something wrong somewhere, either in your constitution or in you sense of aesthetic appreciation.
Beauty incites immediately not only admiration and appreciation, but also a sense to possess he object of beauty itself. If you are not possessive you might want to repeat your aesthetical experience more often with regard to the object of beauty itself.
Beautiful women and men are first targets of attraction for either sex. They are first subject for admiration and love. Love itself, although having infinite expressions and conditions, depending individually on every person, it is more connected to beauty than to anything else. You watch a film because of a handsome actor or a beautiful actress, or a beautiful landscape, or any other object of beauty in it. Most probably you do not watch a film if there are ugly humans and ugly things to look at.
Beauty gives a lifting sense for our eyes, feelings and souls. It transfers us beyond the object itself to admire the creator who has made it beautiful. There is a demand for beauty everywhere. But smashing beauty in humans is rare and seldom. For it is the extreme of the aesthetic spectrum. Ugliness, on the other side of the spectrum is also rare. But the tendency of the spectrum is to produce rarity of beauty in humans and rather more ugliness in them. Look around you and see!
Ugly things in life are not in demand, but they do not have to worry for someone might appreciate its being for other things than beauty.
