Aesthetic Space and Aesthetic Experience from Maxine Green allowed me to associate to an experience I have had. Maxine Green talks about the “aesthetic experience in the natural world”, she describes in-depth New York City and the appreciation of beauty around us. Her description reminded me of an aesthetic experience I had. December 14th, 2015 my boyfriend Eric and I visited the Rocker Feller christmas tree in Manhattan. I remember these details vividly. Eric stood in front of the ice skating ring, he is very tall and pale so he blocked most of the view behind him. He is also very pale during the winter and stands out like a beautiful snow flake. The people looked like little ants swarming behind him. All the lights behind him seemed like …show more content…
Carini, writes about how we describe situations we have experienced. While reading her passage I highlighted a few key points that stood out to me. “Describing is slow and particular work” it is a process of understanding what you are seeing. To fully describe anything you must take it all in, the good, the ugly and what you perceive it to be. Also, understanding that everyone's description might be different but that is what makes the process even better. Another line was “to describe requires and instills respect” if you are describing anything it is because you have respect for it. To give your time which is valuable and to take it it means you value this. Which brings me to the last line I highlighted, “to describe it to value”, this goes hand in hand with having respect for what you are describing. It means you value this experience and moment and are letting it be part of you. Taking the time to appreciate different things is what Maxie Green discusses in another reading. In my life I try to appreciate the beauty of everything and everyone. I like to reflect on my day, the people I've talked to and how I can better myself for tomorrow. I often think I think too much of everything but reading this passage made me feel like reflecting is an important part of our lives. It is a beautiful thing to look back and reflect. It is also important that we are aware of our
Larson writes about and described events, places, and people that were visually unique and sometimes seem outlandish by using imagery .Chicago had people calling it the Black City partly due to the visual contrast to the White City, the fair. This Black City had “smoke filled caverns between buildings…”(Larson
The glimpse of life and what will be gone when you die. The beauty of what people misses while they are caught up in their childish ways.
beauty before we can truly cherish other forms of beauty around us. “Two or three things
I think that what the author was trying to imply in this passage was that in his personal experience, he has noticed that many people take many things for granted and that they don’t live their lives according to what they want and need to do. So much is wasted during one’s lifetime, and people just allow their lives to pass them by.
Each photograph was positioned to emphasize the photo next to it and articulate the narration of midnight and London. Striking midnight, Bryanston Square clock begins the series. Placing this image as the starter of the series I felt help provide the illusion midnight in London is occurring, therefore setting up the story for the images to come. Also, being the most different in composition, lighting, and framing, I felt the Bryanston Square stood out as unique from the rest. A powerful, yet ambiguous mood is given off. I wanted the clock at midnight to act as a way of providing viewers with the sensation of not knowing what is coming up next, almost as if to foreshadow the unknown sights and sensations at midnight in London. One does not know what the night will bring once the clock chimes twelve. I then proceeded to alternate tranquil atmospheres and bustling to highlight the contrast in space at midnight. The juxtaposition among the photographs certifies the different atmospheres of spaces. The quietness and softness of Marylebone High Street Square is amplified more with the activeness of a Soho beside. By alternating between the contrasts of the photos, more stress is placed on the individual atmospheric sensations being transcribed in each photograph. And in the process, establishing the illusion one does not need to venture far to experience these varying personalities. These dynamic atmospheres of midnight in London can be experienced simply by turning the corner, or in shifting to the next photograph. The photographs, despite representing and embodying different characteristics build upon one another to tell the spaces of London’s story at
describing is simply a dream in what you want to achieve in life. And in the poem the dreams of the
Form gives organization to sounds. It refers to the overall structure or plan of a piece of music. It is with the patterns, motifs, and cadences contained within form that help make music enjoyable to listen to. In Roger Scruton’s “Aesthetics of Music” Scruton states in Ch. 10 that form relies on two concepts, deep structure or linear and hierarchal order. Deep structure is the concept that most organized sounds have an underlying form. Deep Structure exists within language particularly in the study of syntax. In language deep structure is a theoretical concept that unifies other structures. An example of this would be how the sentences “Max loves Sara” and “Sara is loved by Max” mean the same thing and use similar wording.
The subjective element of beauty involves judgment, not opinion. Many people feel beauty is only something seen by the eyes. St. Thomas Aquinas views beauty in both the supernatural and natural orders. Aquinas lists the attributes of beauty to be found in nature. These are; unity, proportion, and clarity. We will see how these attributes of beauty are seen through the eye and felt by the heart.
For centuries mankind has unsuccessfully attempted to define beauty. Greek philosophers, including Plato, tried to define beauty as if it were as simple as any other law in nature. However this cannot be so because the idea of what is beautiful has varied throughout cultures and the ages. In the 1800s women who were pale and rather plump were considered objects of desire; but in today’s society, desirable women are slender and tan, among other things. The fact is that today, beauty is as unobtainable as it is indefinable. All of today’s supermodels, as seen in millions of advertisements, have been modified, airbrushed, and photoshopped. Women desiring this beauty have turned to various sources of false remedies, spending thousands of dollars, in hope that they too can be beautiful. The media has twisted and warped our ideal definition of beauty into something that does not exist naturally and is simply inaccessible.
to the fact that not everything is as well as it seems and that this
When you associate anything with New York City it is usually the extraordinary buildings that pierce the sky or the congested sidewalks with people desperate to shop in the famous stores in which celebrities dwell. Even with my short visit there I found myself lost within the Big Apple. The voices of the never-ending attractions call out and envelop you in their awe. The streets are filled with an atmosphere that is like a young child on a shopping spree in a candy store. Although your feet swelter from the continuous walking, you find yourself pressing on with the yearning to discover the 'New York Experience'.
The concept of beauty can be hard to define, as it is an ever-evolving notion. What people perceive as beauty has varied through time, across cultures (Fallon 1990) and can also vary based on individuals. To a culture, beauty can be its customs and traditions, and to an individual it can include physical appearance (outer beauty) or personality (inner beauty). However the word beauty can also defer according to gender, Ambrose Bierce (1958) once wrote, “To men, a man is but a mind. Who cares what face he carries or what he wears? But a woman’s body is the woman.” Despite the societal changes achieved since Bierce’s time, this statement still holds true. Attractiveness is a prerequisite for femininity but not for masculinity (Freedman, 1986).
Over the years, America has become a society that judges beauty based mainly on appearance. Throughout the course of a day, men and women are bombarded with grotesque images of malnourished supermodels selling their own bodies; claiming that they are somehow beautiful. What does it mean to be beautiful? Can self-worth be measured by body weight, clothing size, or shade of lipstick?. “Sometime ago I came across an article in a beauty magazine in which a man said that there were no more ugly women in the world because make-up, weaves, false eyelashes among other beauty treatments have evened out the playing field and has resulted in all women looking the same” ( Gale 1). At the same time, misinformed judgements have caused women to change their physical appearance in order to become more beautiful rather than embracing their own true beauty. To measure beauty effectively one must remember that beauty cannot be determined by physical attributes, but is found in the personality and uniqueness of each individual.
A city has to be beautiful, though the definition of “beauty” is so vague. The beauty can be physical, such as enjoyable parks, streetscapes, architectural facades, the sky fragment through freeways and trees; or it can be the beauty of livelihood, people, and history. As landscape architects, we are creating beautiful things or turning the unpleasant memorial.
The simple words of Krishnamurti capture succinctly the importance of rising above the intrinsic details and looking at the broad picture dispassionately