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virginiawoolf  ·  3759 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why Beauty Matters

Wonderful documentary. Gave me a lot of food for thought the first time I saw it, and later changed my views on beauty. Being a thoroughly modern child, I used to think that beauty did not matter, and was largely an elitist construct. Now I don't, because I think it's important, and that modern art's answer -- to be 3edgy5u -- has just led to a proliferation of art that asks questions, instead of being art according to an aesthetic judgement, i.e. it's creator centered, and says fuck you to the onlooker. In other words -- it's another elitist construct, except that now the craftsmanship, the rigour, and the aesthetic judgement are missing.