ared Verebey
English 1100
Professor Young
November 4th
2014
Beauty Essay
Beauty
Beauty is something special that is
viewed differently by each and every person. Majority of people throughout the
world visualize beauty as a tall, blonde, white girl that is on the front and
back of a Victoria Secret shopping bag. In the Ted Talk, “Denis Dutton: A
Darwinian Theory of Beauty”, he explains something very interesting about his
point of view on what beauty really is. He explains how beauty is seen differently
to him than it is to any other people, even Cameron Russell from the other two
Ted Talk videos. Denis Dutton elaborates on how beauty in his eyes is not just
a good-looking female with a ton of make up on her face. Beauty is a lot more
to him than just that. In my opinion, the word, beauty, has a lot more meaning
to it than the majority of the population really understands. Therefore, the
meaning of beauty can be shown through other aspects such as, landscape, art,
ancient times and culture.
Denis Dutton explained in his Ted
Talk, “A Darwinian Theory of Beauty”, how beauty is not just an attractive
woman. Beauty started way back when people technically had not even evolved and
we were still apes growing into the people we are today. The history of how people
developed and how we evolved into the generation we are currently in is
considered natural beauty. Majority of people in our world, I guarantee have
never looked back and thought how beautiful it really is on how far the
population, people and the world have evolved from millions of years ago in the
Stone Age to current times with all of the technology we use to run our lives.
Beauty can definitely be shown through the history of the evolution of people
and our world growing into something extremely special like we see it now.
The landscape of nature and natural
phenomenon’s is another essential way beauty can be expressed. Denis Dutton
stated one very interesting sentence that in my opinion explained simply what
beauty is through landscape. He stated, “ Beauty is natures way of acting at a
distance.” Denis Dutton is trying to explain that nature created our landscape
of the world and how it currently is. Nature had a huge role to play on how the
world evolved which is why it is so beautiful. It is beautiful because nature
had many teachings on people in the ancient times which taught them new
survival skills and ways of living through good times and bad times. Denis also
sketched out a drawing of a landscape in which majority of the people would think
of what he is referring to. He drew up a sketch of animals in the prairie with
a body of water in the background along with grass fields that he described
would have multiple shades of greens. The sketch consisted of trees and a
walkway that just looked inviting to whom ever came across it. This drawing
expressed how beautiful nature is along with a little bit of imagination that
can create something magnificently beautiful. After Denis Dutton concluded his
talk on how landscape could be something beautiful, he explained how landscape
developed into art.
Art is another way beauty can be
shown vividly. Like I stated before, nature is natural art which is why we can
refer back to landscape as something beautiful that is naturally artistic.
People also see art as sculptures from ancient times, as well as ancient, man
made artifacts such as pottery. Denis Dutton stated, “Beauty is found in
something done well.” Art is not just simple task that anyone can go right
ahead and do. Art is a special talent given to certain people, which is why all
art is considered to be something absolutely beautiful.
Beauty can even be shown through the
materials used back in the ancient times to develop new ways to survive and
stay healthy. For example: Denis Dutton explained how important hand axes were
which were made by homo sapiens and were used very frequent in their lives. As
a joke, Denis Dutton even explained how Homo sapiens even used their hand axes
to attract woman into their lives. He expressed that ancient materials would
generate meticulous workmanship throughout that time period. Beauty has the
ability to be viewed through ancient materials that created the evolution of
our world. Ancient times are considered beautiful especially in the way it
shows how each and every culture developed.
One last way beauty can be expressed is
through different people’s culture. Culture can be beautiful just by the way
each culture lives. For example: people in Middle East part of the world in
countries such as Jordan and Turkey have priorities in which they have to pray
a certain amount of times a day. They live very differently than the people in
the United States do. They eat different types of foods and drive different
types of automobiles. For example: The people in Spain eat breakfast quickly,
have a feats for lunch and a tiny dinner which is served around 10:00 PM.
Culture is designed to show people who visit different ways people live and
show how beautiful the world is because it is so diverse.
People
throughout the world have different opinions on the meaning of beauty. Beauty can
be expressed in many ways, such as landscape, art, ancient times and culture. Beauty
can bring out a vivid sight to people, which is why it will always catch your
eye. If something is beautiful, someone no matter what it is will see it. Beauty
is not just a skinny, sexy white girl. It can be viewed in multiple ways, which
expresses that beauty is something extremely magnificent and unique.
Works Cited
Dutton, Dennis. "A Darwinian Theory of
Beauty." Denis Dutton:
Darwinian Theory of Beauty. TED Conferences, LLC,
Feb. 2010. Web. 12 Nov. 2014.
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