ROUGH DRAFT (NATURAL BEAUTY) DENIS DUTTON

Jared Verebey

English 1100

Professor Young

November 4^th 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 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 majority of the population really understand.

            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.

            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.

            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. Another example of natural beauty is the weather and how it produces different effects on the Earth as well as how people live. People also see Art as sculptures from ancient times as well as ancient materials such as pottery and artifacts. Art can bring out man made as well as natural beauty in our world. Denis Dutton stated, “Beauty is found in something done well.”

            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.

            Each and every person visualizes beauty differently. It can be expressed in many ways such as through ancient culture and the evolution of the how the world was created. Denis Dutton in his Ted Talk, “ A Darwinian Theory of Beauty”, explained also how beauty can be shown through art and landscape such as natural beauty as well as sculptures hand made by people. It is also beautiful seeing how the cultures throughout the world are so different from each other. Beauty is not just a skinny, sexy white girl. It can be viewed in multiple ways, which expresses that beauty is something extremely magnificent.