Wednesday, February 17, 2010

The point of good looking....

I will try to explain the use of beauty here:

To begin with I have no idea what art is, i have no idea what poetry is, I have no idea what abstract art is. I am kind of handicapped, or mentally retarded, when it comes to art. So, I will try to explain the thing from the point of view of automobiles. For the sake of an example I will consider my bike. My bike is a work of art, as far as my artistic sense or as some people might call it "taste" goes, how one can "taste" art is seriously beyond me. Maybe the oil and the colours have a taste, I'll try.

Coming back to my bike, when I ride my bike I am doing the community a favour, I am doing you a favour. When I ride it on the roads you can look at it and enjoy the sight and moreover I am the perfect person to ride the bike if you want to enjoy its beauty. How? Simple, I am not very fashion conscious, primarily because I cannot distinguish between colours owing to my damaged left eye. Then I am not very handsome, so when I am riding the bike there is a sharp contrast which just enhances the beauty of the bike. So , i have explained how I am the perfect person for riding my bike.

Consider this, say, a pretty girl has a beautiful dress, now if she wears it she looks even better. So, she should wear the dress more often so that people can enjoy the sight and be mesmerised by it. Same for a girl with a beautiful smile, she should smile more often. If a girl has beautiful eyes she shouldn't wear sunglasses.

Now all this might appear a bit vague to you, actually absolutely rubbish, but there is a point. You can appreciate beauty only when you see it in the correct context, so don't jump to conclusions. Now, coming back to the central object of this, my bike, obviously it doesn't appear beautiful to you. Why? because you haven't seen automotive art and thus cannot judge. I won't bother, or rather bore, you with the technical explanations about why it is beautiful. What might appear beautiful to you might not be beautiful to my senses. Beauty lies in the senses of the beholder. When I disagree with some one about which is more beautiful I never ridicule the other person for a bad "taste" in art, music or whatever it is. I don't want to know why a particular painting looks good because it founded a new culture, or school as they say, in the art world. I look at it and if it appeals to my senses then I will think it is beautiful, I don't want to look at art and bring out my history books to decide whether it is good or bad.