1. Beauty

2. Intro Activity What is Beauty? Can you draw Beauty? Can you describe something beautiful by hearing it?

3. Beauty… “the qualities that give pleasure to the senses.” “characteristic of a person, place, object or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure, meaning or satisfaction.”

4. Definition one: Aesthetics 1. a particular taste for or approach to what is pleasing to the senses-- especially sight.

5. Aesthetics in this definition is something that appeals to the senses. Someone’s aesthetic has to do with his or her perceptual or artistic judgment. It comes from the root word: Aesthesia: the ability to feel or perceive; being awake and able to feel senses. The opposite is: Anesthesia: the inability to feel or perceive; to be asleep or non-feeling.

6. We make informal aesthetic choices every day. From what we wear...

7. to the things we buy: books, music, and objects for our homes.

8. Public figures make aesthetic choices to convey something about who they are. Andy Warhol wore various silver wigs throughout the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s to change his personal appearance--to create a signature look. Who does this in today’s popular culture? Andy Warhol, Self-Portrait (Fright Wig), 1986, Polaroid™ Polacolor ER, 4 1/4 x 3 3/8 in. (10.8 x 8.6 cm.). ©AWF

9. The aesthetic choices we make influence many parts of our lives. We all have a personal aesthetic (preferences and tastes based on what we see).

10. The perfect prom dress?

11. Beautiful? Wassily Kandinsky, Composition IV, 1911 Achieves both emotional and intellectual impact through colours and symbols

12. Art? Graffiti art Heavy Contact

14. Classic conception of beauty Beauty is in the Phi of the beholder Beauty governed by mathematical principals of proportion, ratio and symmetry What’s your number? 1.1618

15. This ancient Greek sculpture was designed with the Golden Ratio throughout. The following calculations each equal close to 1.61803399. consequently the face is pleasing to the eye. Measured in mm. Top of the head to the chin ÷ width of the head Top of the head to pupil ÷ pupil to lips nose tip to chin ÷ lips to chin nose tip to chin ÷ pupil to nose tip width of nose ÷ nose tip to lips outside distance between eyes ÷ hairline to pupil length of lips ÷ nose tips to lips of the head to the chin ÷ width of the head Top of the head to pupil ÷ pupil to lips nose tip to chin ÷ lips to chin nose tip to chin ÷ pupil to nose tip width of nose ÷ nose tip to lips outside distance between eyes ÷ hairline to pupil length of lips ÷ nose tips to lips

16. For those of you who are curious… http://facethis.blogspot.ca/2012/01/perfect- face-golden-ratio-beauty.html

17. The perfect man? Michelangelo, David

18. The perfect man? Does David Beckham embody these proportions?

19. Revisited Ron Jeremy Pornography icon

20. The perfect Woman? Venus of Willendorf 20000 BCE Natural History Museum, Vienna

21. Updated…

22. The perfect Woman?

23. How do we define beauty today? The Media Model Woman Louise P. Young Al-che-my Consulting and Design …is 14 to 23 years young …wears a size 6 to 8 garment …weighs in at 110 pounds …stands 5’9” to 6’ tall …wears a small petite shirt (cropped over a minute and flawless belly button) with a 34” length sleeve

24. How do we define beauty today? The Media Model Woman Louise P. Young Al-che-my Consulting and Design …wears a size large glove and size 5 ring …wear NO bra (doesn’t need one) …wears size 10 triple A shoe …measurements are 40”, 30”, 30”, 30” (40 required for shoulders) …has long flowing (blowing gracefully in a perpetual breeze) glossy hair Note: The perfect woman does not exist except in your head and heart.

25. What else influences our definition of beauty? MONEY! Historically ideals of wealth have been associated with beauty Eg. The 19th Century look was to be pale - tanning was indicative of outdoor labour During the 1920s wealthy people started taking vacations to sunny destinations - the tanned look was born

26. Wealth and beauty Larger, well-fed body types were also once the ideal What is the ideal now?

28. What does this mean? 75% of women endorse unhealthy feelings or behaviours towards food and their bodies ½ of 9-10 year olds are dieting 40% of newly identified cases of anorexia are found in girls 15-19 Anorexia most lethal psychiatric disorder

29. How has the diet industry benefited? The diet industry is a 315 billion dollar industry (3% of overall US economy 95% of all dieters will regain their lost weight within 1-5 years.

30. Video - The most beautiful woman in the world http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPCkfAR H2eE

31. Philosophical responses to beauty Subjective vs Objective How do we define it? Is it culturally relevant or relative?

32. Quotes Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.beauty Confucius We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting. – Kahlil Gibran

33. Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference: beauty demands to be noticed; it speaks to us directly like the voice of an intimate friend. If there are people who are indifferent to beauty, then it is surely because they do not perceive it. - Roger Scruton, Beauty

34. Aristotle and Plato Finally they agree on something!!! Beauty is not localized in the eye of the beholder. Beauty is reliably achieved using objective proportions. Phi-losophy baby!

35. Subjective approaching objectivity Hume “Of Standards of Taste” Kant “Critique of judgement” Both saw beauty and art as an antimony of taste Qualities of subjectivity and objectivity Judgement on aesthetics remains subjective but is laiden with demand that everyone should reach the same judgement

36. Beauty in the 21 st century Sartwell claims that beauty is not attributed entirely to the subject or object but to the relation between them When we look at the beauty of a flower, night sky, ocean we are turned outward towards beauty. Not purely subjective. Beauty emerges in situations where subject and object are both juxtaposed and connected

37. Beauty in the 21 st century Nehemas argues that beauty invites us to explore and interpret Beauty has a social dimension It is something we share or want to share with others Connects observers to works of art and literature in communities of appreciation

38. A beautiful life? Our Town Reading Afterlife (1998)

39. Cinqueterre, Italy

40. Life at 25

42. Who has the last word?