Connotations of Beauty

exploring: connotations of beauty

“All artwork is about beauty; all positive work represents it and celebrates it. All negative protests the lack of beauty in our lives.”
Agnes Martin

How do you respond to Martin’s Statement?

How do you feel when you see, feel, or hear something beautiful?

Write a passage that encapsulates your sense of visual beauty.

Is beauty more than a veil, a gloss to decorate, or a means of enchantment? Do you associate it with class values, indulgence, decadence, or something else?

Does beauty have two faces; a push and pull between appreciation and disgust?

Does it have any connotation to authentic emotion?

What is your commitment to beauty?

Who taught you what beauty is?

Free write for 15 minutes.

Beauty hides behind the scenes. … If we want to find it, we must demolish the scenery.”
Milan Kundera

We should rescue beauty and pleasure… repossess beauty for our own ends and reinterpret it for our own purposes.”
Felix Gonzalez-Torres