The Truth About Art and Beauty

As we discussed the significance of art, beauty, and truth in class, it made me think about what these three words really mean to me and how they connect in our everyday lives.  Art is the expression or application of human skill or creativity and it's main purpose is to be sensed with emotional power. Beauty is a combination of qualities that pleases the aesthetic senses and is typically viewed differently by different people. Truth is the real or actuality of facts of a certain situation. As I tried to find a relationship between each meaning of these words, I found that they all have a lot to do with human emotion or expression and human experience.

 

Art is the topic where you can find both beauty and truth within it sometimes. This does not mean that you can always find beauty in art or that you can always find truth in art, but in many situations you are able to find those deeper meanings within a piece of artwork.  When people are presented art, many want to jump to the conclusion that it has some sort of representation of an idea or an event or another person.  If a person finds a positive feeling from that connection to the piece of art, one might be sensing beauty in it. If someone is presented that same piece and feels some kind of realness or raw true feeling, that person may be sensing truth in it. 

Beauty and truth are unique because you can find beauty within truth and you can find truth within beauty. Although that's occasionally the case, you can also hide truth with beauty and you can hide beauty with truth. Sometimes truth is beautiful, and other times, it's the complete opposite. Defining and connecting both beauty and truth vary depending on the perspective and situation of something. The three words art, beauty and truth are all subjective and can be interpreted in multiple ways. This results in a variety of opinions about how one finds a connection between each word.