Beauty Revisited Analysis

I think this was the first homework assignment that did not feel like homework at all. When I first started reading these articles I thought about how many pages it was going to be, how long will it take, and maybe how I’ll just skim over them. But once I started reading I did not want to just skim over it. I thought that these articles showed a lost version of beauty that needs to be brought back into our fast paced trendy society.
The first one I read was the “Beauty Revisited” article which changed my understanding of cultural beauty in art, music, clothing, and more. I realized how much of the culture has rubbed off on me. Beauty is not just some word a guy uses to get a girl’s attention. It does not represent a famous model’s features or

I just typed in the search engine the word beauty forgetting to ask for the definition. What I found was actually very disturbing. I looked at the results Google gave me and it was first was advertising for beauty products and makeup. Then it showed some images of “beauty” which were almost all the same in appearance. They were all of women with perfectly smooth skin, pale but with striking features. To this culture, beauty is just something that is pleasurable or satisfies the moment. On Wikipedia, it says beauty’s modern definition is, “A characteristic of an animal, idea, object, person or place that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure or satisfaction”. And that’s what I thought to. But this first article helped me realize Beauty is characteristics of God, like for a small range of examples; excellency, complexity, purity, or admirable. I think that blew my mind just a little bit. It helped me realize what I thought beauty really was. I know that this culture has become way more material than before and this article just proved that to me more. Beauty has turned into a purse or model, not what it makes us think about. Beauty in music specifically has become almost nonexistence.