Assignment No-1

September 23, 2015 Arjun Kataria

3-B

Roll No-9

Beauty, a change or result of progress

Beauty can be defined as a feeling of amuse and pleasure. It is that pure sense of feeling which takes a person into semi unconscious state. Definition of beauty itself is a riddle as one cannot describe it in true words and gets puzzled upon thinking. It is experienced and judged by our senses. It is not only experienced by looking but also by hearing, touch, smell and taste. Beauty is a perception of one’s mind to feel pleasured. It may vary from person to person but to an extent, it may be considered as universal.

A baby, newly born baby is beautiful in itself and is considered as the most beautiful gift for parents, but is it only beautiful for parents? A baby is found beautiful by everyone, even if the baby is black or white, boy or a girl, belongs to rich or poor family. A newly born baby is naturally pure, unexposed to materialistic things in world and brings a broad smile to one’s face. It’s the nature and its components that may define beauty to an extent.

Beauty may also be considered as a spark required to light a candle. It is important in one’s life to make him feel relaxed in any stage of life. Beauty can also be defined as a change. A change may be minor or major. For example, if a person works throughout a week and suddenly he has no work to do, that moment is beautiful for him. Also, people living in metropolitan cities find mountain and hill stations beautiful whereas people living in mountains find metropolitan cities more beautiful. It’s the change in environment and living conditions that is beautiful but if the same person from the metropolitan city lives more than a month in mountains, he may no more find it beautiful.

Similarly, a gamer playing a game with different people will always find that game beautiful as the gameplay keeps changing according to different players. Whereas, the same game will no longer be beautiful to him if he keeps playing with same players. A small child may find a toy beautiful but after he is an adult, the same toy will become a normal object for him. The definition of beauty keeps changing for a person as his mind changes with his age.

Taking architectural movement references, classical architecture was the beginning of great architectural era. The main emphasis was on monumental design, symmetry and geometry. The buildings were monumental but were neither simple nor highly ornamented. The same era subdivided into other movements but later came the gothic period in which the main emphasis was upon sharp and linear objects and buildings were more ornamental. This major change came because the world found the classical buildings to be less beautiful as the same typology was used repeatedly for years. But soon, ornamentation was no more considered as a beauty of building and then came Renaissance where the simplicity of buildings was considered beautiful. The same process continued in the Rococo and Neo Classical movements. The change was necessary with each passing generation to refine the definition of beauty.

Beauty is appealing whereas the things that disturb a person is considered ugly. Ugly is something that can never appeal a person and creates a negative aura. Something is said to be ugly if a person try to compare it to something that is beautiful for him. Ugly is the result of comparison. Humans tend to compare things to what they find beautiful. Not everything can be find beautiful and the things which even lacks essence of beauty are considered ugly. Both beauty and ugly exists due to comparison and change. Both are differently perceived and judged.