“I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
―Anne Frank
When have you found beauty in the midst of suffering?
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“I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
―Anne Frank
When have you found beauty in the midst of suffering?
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At a recent Finding Heart group at our UU congregation the subject was “The Value of Beauty.” One form of beauty is an elegant representation. One example is the Viet Nam War Memorial – a design which conveys the enormity of the sacrifice with over 58,000 names, yet permits people to grieve while seeing their own reflection in the polished black marble scar in the earth. Another example may be the recently completed Peace and Justice monument in Montgomery, AL – again using thousands of names of black people lynched represented by hanging steel columns over a huge area. Confronting tragedy in an aesthetic way to address the unaddressable. Much like opera conveys emotion in music and voice.
When I studied “ART” in my university days, our course on Aesthetics opened the door for me to know that Art can allow both the artist as well as the viewer to understand different qualities such as Beauty, the Sublime, the Tragic, etc. Thank you for recognizing the fact that along with Beauty, there can be many other types of aesthetic response.