Aesthetics

[evilbutterfly]

Originally Posted by Omeganitros

Dude, stfu butterfly. Leave Jam alone.

naw, me and Jam are cool. if u havent noticed, i make it a habit of complimenting her in every thread where we both post. nothing too extreme tho. i dont PM her asking to cyber like alota people do. i mean, if she says i'm annoying then i'll stop, but until then i'll keep on with the flattery

EDIT: forgot a word, whoops

[IronMonk]

lol @ jam. thanks... i guess. it is my mission in life to make people open their minds to things, infact all the people that call me their best friend used to have a bitter hatred of me.

omega. your other example was the two scientists, or the symbolized math. both are correct. but missplaced. had we been arguing about it then you would have won. no argument here.

Master of Spelling. if it will help you sleep at night i will change it.

i agree, off all things in life. girls are by far the most beautifull.



the next question is: Why make art?


personnaly i think art has no point in sociaty. it serves no purpose. but it is the pointless things in life that are the most remembered. i myself am an artist by trade. it is an expression.

[Varia]

Edit: Hey, uh, sorry. I didn't realize I posted in the wrong thread until now. Now being several days later. Sorry about that.

[IronMonk]

i believe you are lost. hopefully you can recieve the help you need.

perhaps all you need is to hit puberty.

[sl1pknot]

whoa IronMonk is smart..seriously

[NeoDarkHeart]

he thinks alot and makes his sentences sound pretty. he's probly no smarter than you, though, just better at expressing it.

[alvask8er]

Originally Posted by Omeganitros

Here's a better example: Two scientists discover a new element. And they ponder, "Gee, what should we call it?"
The first one says "Well, I think we should call it Superflyium."
The other one says "Nonsense, we should call it Freakazoidium!"
And then they both have a heated fight and Freakazoidium wins. Based on the other scientist's opinion.

Nice attempt, but you still lost. True, the opinion matters as to what somthing is symbolized as, BUT, that opinion completely changes and turns into a fact. No longer is it an opinion. At all. No chance.

As for the topic, i cant seem to find anything beautyful, because im not thinking visually. Im thinking more along the lines of the begining of life...mostly how many animals start out small and grow. It amazes me how you can look at a baby and realize one day it will be a full grown human.

Originally Posted by IronMonk

personnaly i think art has no point in sociaty. it serves no purpose. but it is the pointless things in life that are the most remembered.

Very true, but i think "art" is too vague of a word to describe it. Im pretty sure you mean art such as painting or sculptures, but i could be mistaken. Nowadays, "art" can be the way you walk, and it just has become way too open as to what art is. My view on why art is here: It is a way that people can express their talent, and as humans, i think we enjoy marveling at what other humans can create. I give major credit to those who etch out the metal for the bills....all done by hand...it just freaks me out. Art does serve a purpose, dont know what it is though...because things would just be weird without art.

EDIT: Could someone PM me on where the timezone for this forum is based? its 628 pm here in IL, but it says i posted/edited at 5 28 am?

[IronMonk]

thank you all for the complements. i am no smarter then most. i simply try to be as eloquent as possible. i think art is everything, it amazes me the complexity inherint in things that most people take for granted. it also doesnt hurt that i have a lot of free time to ponder such things.

alvask8er, well done.

i think this thread is now covered.

[Xaimus]

I find tracker patterns to be beautiful.

[IronMonk]

Tracker patterns??

[Xaimus]

Tracker patterns!

[NeoDarkHeart]

wtfrandom?

[IronMonk]

so, then if tracker patterns are beautifull to you. what makes them beautifull for you?

[Moogy]

Winamp visualizations are the epitome of beauty.

[IronMonk]

ok, since you all are obviously above reading the first post.

why do you think that winamp visulizations are beautifill.

[Jam930]

[IronMonk]

are you all trying to aggrivate me?

jam, seeing as you chose a bunch of nature stuff. what makes it beautifull for you?

[NeoDarkHeart]

asking for a reason to most human emotions or the way things appeal to us wont get you much. its just something inside that tells you that you like it. brain functions or something... whatever. different people have different definitions of beauty because of various innumerable factors inside their mind, so basically the answer to "why is it beautiful" is simply "because".

[IronMonk]

i would dissagree. i find everything beautifull because of the amazing complexity in everything. i know why i find it funny. and also hence i like painting that displays a wide array of differant things in it.

[trillobyite]

I find beauty in snow. I'm telling you, when I get the chance I'm gonna go move to Alaska or someplace, or at least take a trip there, and go hiking in the mountains. I can't give an explanation or anything for it, its an instinctive feeling.

And about art not being useful, one use for it that I can think of off the top of my head is as religious symbols. For example, in Greece, they would paint their vases with mythological creatures to give its recipient (if its for an award) luck in whatever the god's power is.