In its most profound sense, beauty may engender a salient experience of positive reflection about the meaning of one’s own existence. An “object of beauty” is anything that reveals or resonates with personal meaning. Maybe that’s why CHANEL (the big brand in beauty products chooses this photo in this style to send out its message in Budapest). Seeing this, I was reminded the saying:”Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder”
How many of you agree? ”Beauty lies in the eyes of the Beholder?” ;)
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Update from Zsolt: The other day I had a conversation with Zannnie. Her major is Marketing and she mentioned to me that in advertising: sex sells.
I was wondering if it works for men only. See the comments to yesterday’s post and you will get the answer.:)
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Of course sex sells! It’s a basic premise in the advertising world because it’s a basic drive, feeling, action..however, you want to describe it. I had to laugh at the remarks from yesterday and glad that you pointed us to it. I also agree that “beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.” For me, that, too, is pretty basic and allows for many different standards of beauty, which I think is wonderful. I may find that my granddaughter is unbelieveably beautiful even tho you may not agree, for example, but it doesn’t change my perception of her beauty. The desert may be beautiful to me but not to someome else, and the list goes on. And I go on!! Have a good week!!
tres beau reflet. elle est tres belle
“La vraie beauté, c’est ce que l’on dégage. Si l’on dégage du soleil, du bonheur, si on s’aime un peu soi-même, le regard que les autres posent sur vous sera infiniment plus indulgent.”
very beautiful reflection. it is very beautiful “The true beauty, it is what one releases. If one releases from the sun, of happiness, if one likes a little oneself, the glance that the others pose on you will be infinitely more lenient.”
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder but to be truly beautiful, the inner character must shine thru as well!
Now you tell me – I’ve been buying it!
The problem is that this Chanel sort of beauty is cosmetically enhanced and computer generated. Real women don’t have skin with no flaws and breasts that always stay point up the right way. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder because it is only through knowing a person that you see their real beauty.
This is a topic with as many dimensions as Beauty itself.
In Crispin Sartwell’s book, Six Names of Beauty, he takes a quick look at some of the facets, including “Yapha” (Hebrew), “Sundara” (Sanskrit), “To Kalon” (Greek), “Wabi-Sabi” (Japanese), and “Hohzo” (Navajo). I’d hate to see us subsume these and other cultural/historical facets beneath one idea, one facet.
Perhaps that does go to the point — that Beauty, needing a Perciever, cannot help but metaphorically be in the eye of the beholder.