Beauty is something that is absolutely unavoidable in human life. much of what humans do in evaluating each other, arts, or anything visual rely solely on aesthetics and the idea of beauty. but what is beauty? a simple definition is just something pleasing to the eye. but it can mean so much more because beauty is not just in visuals as it can be abstract as well. Beauty to me pertains much to art and art compositions. beauty to me is an attractive face or being, or an alluring painting, drawing or form. Yet it can also be an emotion, gesture, or graceful movement. with such an unascertainable definition, i believe that it is a prime choice for this paper.
To me, as an artist, beauty is something of utmost importance and invades my daily life and work. i always strive to make my work visually appealing and must learn what is beautiful in order to achieve this. in some ways, beauty can be boiled down to a math equation involving the "golden mean" ratio which is supposed to give comfort to people as it is the most eye-pleasing ratio in nature. Because beauty is such a critical part of my daily life and my passion, i would be very interested to further learn the etymology of the word and perhaps uncloud a hazy, debatable, complex definition to such a common word.
