Why Beauty Matters (Widescreen) [1/6]

I thought that this documentary was really eye opening describing that in victorian times "beauty was a value as important as truth or goodness" and that the "soul purpose of art, music was beauty" and that how beauty in society reflects how we percieve things and how all our archiecture is ugly and cold, with no love or appreciation gone into it and how that anything with just a utility use is not meant to last, and how architecture of great beauty has last thousands of years.

How all our art now is meant to disturb or shock (Tracy Emin's Bed) and that by loosing beauty in our culture we are loosing the meaning of life. How copies of mimicks of somehing can never match up (such as the Michalangelo Statue) because copies lack creativity and deep down we all know when something is cheapend it looses its preciousnes.

That beauty is all around us it "amplifies our joys, finds consolidaion for our sorrows" that "sacred and beauty" stand side by side, that "beauty is the sign of another and higher order. Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind you will be able to nourish true vurtue and become the son of god." It all sounds a little far fetched and religious but this documentary really touched me and really made sense, as wordsworth said "getting and spending we way to waste our powers."

"Today the human hunger for beauty is satisfied by the much-maligned fashion magazines which as glorious art for the masses." From What is Beauty.