Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Definition of Beauty

Who among us who do not like beauty or aesthetic values? Every human being has the tendency to present the beauty in life.
It can be observed in our daily lives. Clothes that we found, interior and exterior of our homes, our workplaces, the book covers the scientific literature, as well as readings of pop, all kinds of magazines, colleges, places of worship, places of recreation, all arranged with a touch of beauty. Teta city, lighting, culinary, fashion, haircuts, wajahpun, displayed with a certain aesthetic taste. It feels less prestigious price ourselves out of life when we just mengandalakan function, but completely ignored taste and beauty.
Keindahah for humans, is an important sangnat, ayng shows that humans had a feeling smooth, soft, and appreciate quality. The high artistic taste soak someone in beautiful works, in turn, will provide a positive influence on emotional behavior and moral attitudes.

There is beauty in the broad sense and adapula beauty in the narrow sense, adapula pure aesthetic, contemplation, ekstese, the aesthetic value of art works, etc.. The Liang Gie in his work Outline of Aesthetics (Philosophy of Beauty). Translating the beauty of the word Beautiful. According to the guidelines, it must be distinguished between the abstract quality of beauty as seuatu and as a particular object is beautiful.
According to The Liang Gie, beauty can be divided into 3, namely:
1. Beautiful in a broad sense.
2. Beautiful in the sense of pure aesthetics.
3. Beautiful in the sense of limited eyesight.
The beauty in the broad sense contains the idea of goodness. Plato menyebutknya as beautiful nature and beautiful law. While Aristotle define beauty as something that is good fun too. Pengetian pure aesthetic beauty in a sense, is the aesthetic experience of a person in relation to something that is absorbed. Adapan sense of beauty in a limited sense, only objects that can be absorbed premises eyesight, which is a beauty of form and color.
The philosophers define beauty as a unified formal relationship observations, which can induce pleasure. With these limits, people often confuse understanding mixes beauty and art. when art had a more concrete signs of beauty. Thus a beautiful statement that is art, and art must be beautiful, not always true.
Experts formulate some definitions of beauty as follows:
a. Loe Tolstoy (Russian)
In the Russian language, the beauty is Krasota means it is something that brings a sense of fun For those who see with their eyes. Not to mention the Russian nation to the beauty of music. The beautiful can only be seen by the eye (Visual). That's why Leo Tolstoy believes that beauty is one that brings a sense of fun for the view.
b. Baumgarden Alexander (Germany)
Beauty is a section that has a regular arrangement, which the parts are and which are closely related from each other and also with the whole.
c. Sulzer
The beauty of it only for good. If not good, something that's not to say beautiful. Keindahah must cultivate the moral feelings. Immoral is not beautiful because it can not be used to foster moral.
d. Winchelmann.
The beauty of the buffer regardless of the good altogether.
e. Shaftesbury (Germany)
The beautiful it is that has harmonious proportions. Because that has harmonious proportions is real, then beauty can be equated with goodness. The beautiful is real and real good is beautiful is good.
f. Humo (UK)
Beauty is something that causes or brings pleasure.
g. Hemsterhuis (Netherlands)
The beautiful is a good palling bring pleasure, dna is in shortest possible time, at most provide a fun observation.
h. Emmanuel Kani
There are 2 formulations of beauty:
1. Subjective, beauty is something that without reflection and without has to do with practical usefulness, but bring a sense of fun.
2. That objective, Bring harmony of an object to goal so far this object contains no terms of use.
i. Al-Ghozali
The beauty of an object lies from perfection, which can be recognized again and in accordance with the nature of the thing. Every object has characteristics that perfection. The nature of perfection in an object is a representation of beauty the highest value.
j. Herbert Read.
The beauty is seen as the symptoms are not permanent in nature.
k. Sarpet Treid
Prasaan and beauty of symptoms that do not stay in character so that its manifestations, nor does it keep its form.

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