Beauty can be so different: the beauty of sound, word, image, smell. But each of the types of beauty is united by some common attributes - it must be harmonious, balanced, perceived by a single, complete.
What is beauty? Why, when looking at something from our point of view, does a person’s beautiful heart begin to beat faster and tears come to his eyes? Why, despite the fact that the canons of beauty has repeatedly changed, there are still things whose beauty is considered absolute for any culture and any time? Even in the ancient world, beauty was associated with spirituality, that is, the highest measure of understanding and insight, the materialized meaning of the universe (Socrates said that beauty is a category of consciousness and reason). Already the ancient authors tried to understand where is the line that separates the beautiful from the beautiful, and the beautiful from the divine. Where is the providence that allows you to create something beyond human perception? And is there any additional meaning in this that could explain the very existence of man and his higher destiny. And is it possible to comprehend this meaning? Plato believed that before birth, man is in the beauty and purity of thought. And after birth, he has been trying all his life to return to this divine state, lost at birth. Beauty, especially filled with sacred meaning, survived the persecution in the middle, troubled centuries, when everything beautiful was considered to have come from the devil, evil for the temptation of a simple person. Less divine and more bright, pompous, artsy was invested in this concept. Beauty has lost its deeply philosophical meaning and has become the measure of human desires and aspirations. If a large number of people wants to possess one item or another, then it is beautiful. That is, there was a substitution of concepts. Also, do not confuse beauty with fashion. For example, in the Middle Ages there was a fashion for thinness and pallor of the human body, but behind this was a desire to imitate aristocrats who did not go out into the sun and did not engage in physical labor. Also, like the fashion of prenatality, praised by Rubens, there is nothing more than a tribute to people in abundance, and not half-starving, like most people of that period. Now humanity is trying to return the original, pure meaning of beauty. We are looking for him in painting and literature, music and drama. Because we, like our ancestors, believe that beauty has an answer to the question why we are, what our goal is, where we are going and whether we are doing it right. Beauty is divine. People who create or recognize beauty become a little closer to understanding the answer to the most important question. That is why it is human nature to deify beauty.
