In response to this weeks lecture on beauty vs. sublime, realism vs. romanticism, I would have to say I like Glenn’s last comments in regards to balance. Romantic art or other pleasures that offer hope and motivation to achieve more in life is very important. I think the romantic and beauty in life are critical to making it through the sublime, mundane and ordinary everyday life stuff…But the Sublime and ordinary practical things in life are also necessary…the real stuff keeps my head out of the clouds so I can see where I am going and keeps me from falling down. There is a reason the romantic people tend to marry the down to earth types and vice versa. It’s easy for poets like Keats to recite “Beauty is all you need” or the Beatles to sing “Love is all you need”, but the real world is not giving out a lot of jobs for being romantic. So I agree with the idea of balance of both realism and romantic.
I, like most of us have seen Beauty become ugly, and Ugly become Beauty, and not just in the movies. I have been blessed to see ugly redeem itself and transform many times over with people.
I think Beauty can be all things, moral and good and lead to higher things, and I think it can be negative and drop to lower levels. In art, I have seen no unbeautiful things, if done sincerely and with effort.
Even Goya’s Saturn is beautiful in its own way.
It’s raw beauty at least.
If an art work depicts something in life I don’t like, but still has attractive colors, and is organized and thoughtful, then I personally don’t call it ugly. If an art work is both unorganized, too bland and also is not thoughtful and unattractive to many, I believe the artist can still find the beauty within it from their own perspective. That is the beautiful thing about art: It is subjective at its core. The art I like is the art that artists MUST do, whether or not critics rant or rave (Banksy the graffiti artist presented by Courtney comes to mind). Whether or not, art is beautiful or romantic or ugly and sublime, makes no bit of difference to me as long as it makes me stop and think, smile, gasp or causes me to be inspired. Those are the qualities in art that keeps me searching both within and around me for more of the same.
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