Mando, you may believe that the essence of beauty is an individual personal perception, but you also want to show people your sculpture, don't you? Aren't you hoping that it will feel as beautiful to some of them as it does to you? Aren't you hoping that something like 'freedom of personal expression' is a good end goal that you and your audience will share? Isn't that the message you're always trying to deliver to this listserv, day in and day out?
Certain cultural objects have "the power to reflect worthy values" -- just as a road map has the power to direct the traveler to his destination - and this why the discussion of such objects can become so heated, as if it weren't just a matter of differing taste, but different worthy values reflecting different conditions of moral character. What can be said about people who have a taste for obsessively cluttered hellish images of ugly, deformed people often doing perverse, cruel, and violent things to each other? That's been a dominant theme in Chicago pictorial art for half a century - and it interests me to compare it with medieval Christian and Buddhist depictions of similar stuff. "I believe beauty can not be define to the satisfaction of everyone. It's essence is an individual personal perception, and will remain so. How can there be a good end goal to something we can't agree on?" mando ____________________________________________________________ Click here for free info on Graduate Degrees. http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/BLSrjnxVvT6GIUr4mKf1qPwk1WKHj6 PpmzfMi1wXooIzJpaJyw1C7wsZEqM/
