The Art of Beauty - Part II
Perspectives from The Artist's Road
Troubadours 30 x 40” Oil Ann Trusty
“Art is the increasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers -
and never succeeding.”
- Marc Chagall
The subject of beauty has been coming up in many of our conversations with artists lately. Scott Burdick produced a video presentation on the subject of beauty in art. Within it he mentioned a quote by Roger Scruton from a BBC documentary entitled, “Why Beauty Matters”: “Beauty is a value as important as truth and goodness. I think we are losing beauty and there’s a danger that with it, we will lose the meaning of life.” - a very provocative statement.
The definition of beauty contains much arbitrariness, if it can be defined at all. After all, our subjective “tastes” can embody great diversity and diverge radically from each other’s. But, the one great beauty that seems to be universal, that we all seem to recognize, is that of the flower.
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