principles of beauty
Six Principles--the principles of beauty
In The Analysis of Beauty Hogarth implements six principles, which independently affect beauty. Although he concurs that those principles have an effect, he is not determinate on their specific influence. The first principle of beauty Hogarth describes is fitness, whi**** not in itself a source of beauty, but can be described as a material cause of it. Though the account of fitness on the total beauty of an object is only moderate, it is a necessary cause. Fitness does not necessarily imply purpose. However, improperly implied forms cannot be the source of beauty. It is in this that the necessity of fitness must be seen: if not accounted for, a form cannot readily be assumed beauti****l.
The second major principle of beauty is variety. It is the source of beauty, which Hogarth shows us by the contrary notion of "sameness": "sameness", a lack of variety, offends the senses. "The ear is as much offended with one even continued note, as the eye is with being fix'd to a point, **** the view of a dead wall.[1]" In contrast, our senses find relief in discovering a certain amount of "sameness" within a varietal experience.
The third notion of regularity is understood as a form of "composed variety": it only pleases us when it is suggestive to fitness. Similar to this notion in effect is simplicity, which enhances the pleasure of variety in tha**** pleases the eye. The variety which causes a beauti****l experience should, so to speak, be tempered by simplicity. On the other hand: simplicity without variety at best does only not displease.
Intricacy is a strange principle in tha**** does not directly follow from the formal behaviour of a beauti****l object. Hogarth means by this the habit which causes us end up in the whirling game of pursuit, when bit by bit discovering the beauty of an object. Intricacy arises from the love of this pursuit. Every difficulty in understanding or grasping the object enhances the pleasure of overcoming it, in order to continue the pursuit. There is a direct connection here to the Line of BeautyHogarth dictates, along which every image is built up. Though the movement of our eye is discrete in itself, the movement of our "Mind's eye" follows a duplicate course of the line, a principal ray of light moving along with the line of sight. The continuous movement of our "Mind's eye" triggers the notion of intricacy.
Quan****y, finally, is associated with the notion of the sublime which, when Hogarth's book appeared, was not yet entirely distinguished from the apprehension of beauty. Hogarth thus does not speak of sublimity, but of greatness. He recognizes a great quan****y to have an aesthetic effect on the beholder without the necessity of a varietal or fitting form. This should not be exaggerated, as that might lead to absurdities.
body consciousness leads to all external aids. in the absence of it , as a result of a great evolution, one needs no cladding ,akka mahadevi, an example......joy
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20 April 2011 20:20:50
"flabbergasted":
agape, aghast, agog, all agog, amazed, astonished, astounded,
at gaze, awed, awestruck, beguiled, bewildered, bewitched,
breathless, captivated, confounded, dumbfounded, dumbstruck,
enchanted, enraptured, enravished, enthralled, entranced,
fascinated, gaping, gauping, gazing, hypnotized, in awe, in awe of,
lost in wonder, marveling, mesmerized, open-eyed, openmouthed,
overwhelmed, popeyed, puzzled, rapt in wonder, spellbound,
staggered, staring, stupefied, surprised, thunderstruck,
under a charm, wide-eyed, wonder-struck, wondering
yet recovered after a while, eyes closed,mind , the search engine, reaching for the related links, inside, now ready to click a few keys .
key words--panchakoshas, aesthetics, the principles of beauty, body consciousness
there are five distinct sheaths or koshas.
The food sheath or annamaya kosha
The vital sheath or air sheath or pranamaya kosha
The mental sheath or manomaya kosha
The intellectual sheath or vignanamaya kosha
The bliss sheath or anandamaya kosha
inside our clothes, there are yet another 5 dresses we are wearing
in the life's journey, we reach a station panchakoshaatheeth, of a perfect and total nudity
baring the body is no nudity at all
Indian art evolved with an emphasis on inducing special spiritual or philosophical states in the audience, or with representing them symbolically. According to Kapila Vatsyayan, "Classical Indian architecture, sculpture, painting, literature (kāvya), music, and dancingevolved their own rules conditioned by their respective media, but they shared with one another not only the underlying spiritual beliefs of the Indian religio-philosophic mind, but also the procedures by which the relationships of the symbol and the spiritual states were worked out in detail."
In the Pan Indian philosophic thought the term 'Satyam Shivam Sundaram' is another name for the concept of the Supreme. 'Sat' is the truth value, 'Shiv' is the good value & 'Sundaram' is the beauty value. Man through his 'Srabana' or education, 'Manana' or experience and conceptualization and 'Sadhana' or practice, through different stages of life (Asramas) comes to form and realize the idea of these three values to develop a value system. This Value-system helps us to develop two basic ideas 1) that of 'Daksha' or the adept/expert and 2) of Mahana/Parama or the Absolute and thus to judge anything in this universe in the light of these two measures, known as 'Adarsha'. A person who has mastered g****mounts of knowledge of the grammars, rules, & language of an art-form are adepts (Daksha), where as those who have worked through the whole system and journeyed ahead of these to become a law unto themself is called a Mahana. Individuals idea of 'Daksha' and 'Mahana' is relative to one's development of the concept of 'Satyam-Shivam-Sundaram.' For example, Tagore's idea of these two concepts should be way ****ve any common man's and many perceive Tagore as a 'Mahana' Artist in the realm of literature. This concept of Satyam-Shivam-Sundaram, a kind of Value Theory is the cornerstone of Indian Aesthetics.
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