Beauty is something people come across every day. People find beauty in different colors, shapes, objects, sounds and so much more. Many artists over time have tried to construe their perception of beauty through different forms of the arts (painting, music, etc). The interesting fact is that not everyone perceives beauty in the same way and that could be a construct that is molded over time. Being able to observe beauty in different perspectives and forms allows a person to dive deeper into that particular section.
In the article, "The Brain and the Experience of Beauty" (2019) by Dr. Noberto Grzywacz and colleagues find ways to understand the beauty of something and how people perceive the aspects of beauty. They found that over time, much art has shown that there is no major symmetry in certain portraits, sculptures and more. Dr. Gryzwacz and team worked with the ideas of a objectivist view and a subjectivist view to understand if the beauty lies in the object itself or if the person themselves comes up with the quality of that object. There was much research to combat both sides of the story and it only makes a person wonder about it more. How does a person know what beauty is? Does it come from the quality of the object? Or does it come from some subconscious that we develop over time? Understanding beauty is not something one person can look at and say "that is beauty" because another could come and disagree. Then how does the world know who is right?
Another article, "Cognitive-Developmental Education Based on Stages of Understanding Experiences of Beauty" (Rhett Diessner et al, 2016) studied the notion of beauty and how cognitive development changes with experiences related to beauty. Diessner et al. (2016), also discuss how other researchers have drawn up stages of cognitive development and how beauty is intertwined with or influential to people. This is an important study because at some point, everyone may experience beauty but depending on age and development that observation may be seen differently between two or more people.
Bringing in the two articles in important for not only distinguishing what beauty may be and how the brain experiences it, but also for understanding how the perception of beauty evolves with age. Perception of beauty can be observed and conceptualized but this is something that occurs without a person being truly aware of the cognitive changes occurring. Beauty from the Renaissance can be argued to be very different to beauty today. That make come from differences in the times, but also come from the constant development of minds in new ages and how things are never staying the same.
In the article, "The Brain and the Experience of Beauty" (2019) by Dr. Noberto Grzywacz and colleagues find ways to understand the beauty of something and how people perceive the aspects of beauty. They found that over time, much art has shown that there is no major symmetry in certain portraits, sculptures and more. Dr. Gryzwacz and team worked with the ideas of a objectivist view and a subjectivist view to understand if the beauty lies in the object itself or if the person themselves comes up with the quality of that object. There was much research to combat both sides of the story and it only makes a person wonder about it more. How does a person know what beauty is? Does it come from the quality of the object? Or does it come from some subconscious that we develop over time? Understanding beauty is not something one person can look at and say "that is beauty" because another could come and disagree. Then how does the world know who is right?
Another article, "Cognitive-Developmental Education Based on Stages of Understanding Experiences of Beauty" (Rhett Diessner et al, 2016) studied the notion of beauty and how cognitive development changes with experiences related to beauty. Diessner et al. (2016), also discuss how other researchers have drawn up stages of cognitive development and how beauty is intertwined with or influential to people. This is an important study because at some point, everyone may experience beauty but depending on age and development that observation may be seen differently between two or more people.
Bringing in the two articles in important for not only distinguishing what beauty may be and how the brain experiences it, but also for understanding how the perception of beauty evolves with age. Perception of beauty can be observed and conceptualized but this is something that occurs without a person being truly aware of the cognitive changes occurring. Beauty from the Renaissance can be argued to be very different to beauty today. That make come from differences in the times, but also come from the constant development of minds in new ages and how things are never staying the same.
References:
Aleem H., Pombo M., Correa-Herran I., Grzywacz N.M. (2019) Is Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder or an Objective Truth? A Neuroscientific Answer. In: Contreras-Vidal J., Robleto D., Cruz-Garza J., Azorín J., Nam C. (eds) Mobile Brain-Body Imaging and the Neuroscience of Art, Innovation and Creativity. Springer Series on Bio- and Neurosystems, vol 10. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24326-5_11
Rhett Diessner, Lana Schuerman, Amy Smith, Kelsey Marker, Alex Wilson, & Katherine Wilson. (2016). Cognitive-Developmental Education Based on Stages of Understanding Experiences of Beauty. The Journal of Aesthetic Education, 50(3), 27-52. doi:10.5406/jaesteduc.50.3.0027
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