Search for Beauty 2019

September 5th, 2019 "Beauty and Art"            My examples of beauty had an emphasis on nature, which is a place that I find beauty a lot. While I think that nature is a source of beauty for a lot of people, I find myself particularly drawn to nature. Truly experiencing beauty involves feeling something outside of yourself, where the consciousness of self dissipates, and you are fully immersed in your surroundings. Experiencing beauty is a spiritual experience by nature.               This reminds me of Plato's definition of art that we read for class. If art is an imitation of nature then nature must have some type of value, perhaps this value is beauty. Beauty may be what compels the artist to create their art, a desire to interact or re-present this beauty for their own sake or even for the sake of others.  September 8th, 2019 "The Definition of Art (Plato and Harrison)"      Unlike Plato, Jane Ellen Harrison believes that art is more than a mere i

01/09/2019       As we enter into this semester, and before we get any deeper into it's content, my questions and goals for this course are as follows: to understand the term "beauty" as a whole instead of the mere images of what I (biasly) deem to hold the qualities of the word's definition. Not only do I want to understand the term as wholesomely as I am able, but to possibly create a new genre of beauty within the term. By achieving my goals, I am hoping to ease my desire for the grasping and possessing of beauty that has been so deeply buried into my female mind from the early 2000's model of the "ideal woman" to having an outrageously beautiful mother, whose genes I only posses partially. I hope to truly find the beauty within this class that may guide me to a mindful understanding and appreciation of a word I have grown to resent in a sort of "I wish I didn't love you" type of way. 11/09/19      As one explores the Critique of On