Beauty in our Eyes

There is a cliché that beauty is in the eye of the beholder
but it is irrefutable too that people are similar than dissimilar and in one
point, they will agree to what is beautiful. People in general know what is
beautiful from what is not but what makes artists different from the rest is
not as to how they are capable of identifying one but more than anything, they
know very well how to execute it, ‘say in wall painting.

Let a child grow up in a jungle for years and once he grows
old, take him to a comfortable luxury hotel and he’d know exactly that where he
is at is a place of beauty without being exposed to it previously. And because
he doesn’t know what art is, then not in a chance he’ll see the place as work
of art but all he understands is that his new surrounding pleases his eyes. And
because he does not understand what an art piece is or what is an Asian art
from what is European, the moment this very same man was taken to museum, no
appreciation however is expected from him. And this is simply because art may
not be all beautiful but some are merely expression or a representation of
something like culture and tradition. What pleases the eyes of an individual
may differ but most often than not what displeases the eyes of one displeases
the rest, as well. In general, we have a grasp of what is beautiful, although
there are just some variations as to how we look at things or our surroundings.
It is like when people talk about something or someone as beautiful and another
person finds the very same subject as not beautiful, then he or she must have
just raised her standard of what beauty is or perhaps, the person just over
expected based from the opinion of the majority. And when this over expectation
has not been met, psychologically this beauty will not be attractive enough in
one’s eyes but it wasn’t mentioned at all that such is ugly.

Asian art is art of beauty and expression. Yet despite how
beautiful a piece is, an art that is more beautiful exists somewhere and when
the two will be compared, then the former will be seen as not beautiful when
compared to the latter. But then, to mean the lesser as ugly is not in any way
insinuated. Given this, beauty in the eyes of the beholder may mean that
there are just degrees of what is beautiful that people see.

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