The concepts and values of beauty vary from person to person. overall beauty can represent anything from art, to food, and sunsets. the biggest concern is that people don’t value beauty properly. One specific instance, in “La bella vita”, author John Armstrong discusses views on art from, poet Friedrich Schiller’s point of view. he explains that you have to have two main ideas sense drive and form drive that need to work in tandem to see the true beauty in things. beauty in the world from my stand point is a representation of emotions and how beauty specifically can make you feel and remember aspects of life. in my community specifically at the University of New England, beauty to most people is a representation and love and happiness as well as good feelings. John Armstrong explains that “Schiller was convinced that to regard beauty as a luxury adornment or a social signifier was to miss the true potential of the experience, because for him the point of beauty was to elevate the soul”, beauty as a whole is meant to bring emotion to you and show you the true parts of life. Armstrong specifically explains this throughout his work and proves how different mechanisms need to be at balance for beauty to be shown through and through.
Great work incorporating the forms into this first free write.