Post by pieter on Sept 19, 2020 4:27:21 GMT -7
'Beauty in the eye of the beholder'
The phrase beauty is in the eye of the beholder means that people can have differing opinions on what is beautiful. So what is pleasing to the eyes of one person might be ordinary or ugly to another. In other words, beauty can be subjective.
Example: The color of Blake’s house had faded, so he painted everything yellow to give his home a bright new look. He was pleased with how it turned out.
Later, his brother came over to visit. After seeing the freshly painted house, his brother critiqued, “This shade of yellow is too light. It is unappealing.” However, Blake disagreed and said, “I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder, because I think it looks great!”
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then the person who is observing gets to decide what is beautiful. A common saying is "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder," which means beauty doesn't exist on its own but is created by observers. ... To be a beholder, you have to pay attention.
In the judge's eyes she may have a beautiful face; but beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
That which one person finds beautiful or admirable may not appeal to another.
‘I do understand their appeal and, after all is said and done, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.’
P.S. - Source: Various 'Beauty in the eye of the beholder' links I found when I typed 'Beauty in the eye of the beholder' in my Google search bar. This subject interests me from my fine art and art historical background (my motivation to start this thread), but also from Fashion, human behavioral, esthetical, ethical, social and financial economical context. Pieter.
Why beauty is in the eye of the beholder
By Kelli Whitlock BurtonOct. 1, 2015 , 12:00 PM
They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But whether the beholder’s opinion is a product of one's genes or one's environment has long been a question for scientists. Although some research suggests that a preference for certain physical traits, such as height or muscular build, may be encoded in our genes, a new study finds it’s our individual life experiences that lead us to find one face more attractive than another. To get some closure on the nature versus nurture debate in human aesthetics, researchers asked 547 pairs of identical twins and 214 pairs of same-gender fraternal twins to view 200 faces and rate them on a scale of one to seven, with one being the least attractive and seven the most attractive. A group of 660 nontwins then completed the same survey. If genes were more involved in facial preference, identical twins would have had similar ratings; if the influence of a familial environment carried more weight, fraternal twins would have also answered similarly. However, most twins’ scores were quite different from one another, suggesting that something else was at play. The researchers suspect that it’s an individual’s life experiences that guide our opinions of attractiveness. The findings, reported today in Current Biology, build on earlier work by the same team that shows the ability to recognize faces is largely a genetic trait. The research is ongoing, and you can participate, too. Just complete the facial preference survey through the researchers’ website at: www.TestMyBrain.org.
Posted in: Brain & Behavior
doi:10.1126/science.aad4653
www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/10/why-beauty-eye-beholder
The phrase beauty is in the eye of the beholder means that people can have differing opinions on what is beautiful. So what is pleasing to the eyes of one person might be ordinary or ugly to another. In other words, beauty can be subjective.
Example: The color of Blake’s house had faded, so he painted everything yellow to give his home a bright new look. He was pleased with how it turned out.
Later, his brother came over to visit. After seeing the freshly painted house, his brother critiqued, “This shade of yellow is too light. It is unappealing.” However, Blake disagreed and said, “I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder, because I think it looks great!”
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then the person who is observing gets to decide what is beautiful. A common saying is "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder," which means beauty doesn't exist on its own but is created by observers. ... To be a beholder, you have to pay attention.
In the judge's eyes she may have a beautiful face; but beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
That which one person finds beautiful or admirable may not appeal to another.
‘I do understand their appeal and, after all is said and done, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.’
P.S. - Source: Various 'Beauty in the eye of the beholder' links I found when I typed 'Beauty in the eye of the beholder' in my Google search bar. This subject interests me from my fine art and art historical background (my motivation to start this thread), but also from Fashion, human behavioral, esthetical, ethical, social and financial economical context. Pieter.
Why beauty is in the eye of the beholder
By Kelli Whitlock BurtonOct. 1, 2015 , 12:00 PM
They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But whether the beholder’s opinion is a product of one's genes or one's environment has long been a question for scientists. Although some research suggests that a preference for certain physical traits, such as height or muscular build, may be encoded in our genes, a new study finds it’s our individual life experiences that lead us to find one face more attractive than another. To get some closure on the nature versus nurture debate in human aesthetics, researchers asked 547 pairs of identical twins and 214 pairs of same-gender fraternal twins to view 200 faces and rate them on a scale of one to seven, with one being the least attractive and seven the most attractive. A group of 660 nontwins then completed the same survey. If genes were more involved in facial preference, identical twins would have had similar ratings; if the influence of a familial environment carried more weight, fraternal twins would have also answered similarly. However, most twins’ scores were quite different from one another, suggesting that something else was at play. The researchers suspect that it’s an individual’s life experiences that guide our opinions of attractiveness. The findings, reported today in Current Biology, build on earlier work by the same team that shows the ability to recognize faces is largely a genetic trait. The research is ongoing, and you can participate, too. Just complete the facial preference survey through the researchers’ website at: www.TestMyBrain.org.
Posted in: Brain & Behavior
doi:10.1126/science.aad4653
www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/10/why-beauty-eye-beholder