| Beauty is a characteristic
of a person, place, object, or idea that provides a perceptual experience
of pleasure, meaning, or satisfaction. Beauty is studied as part of aesthetics,
sociology, social psychology, and culture. As a cultural creation, beauty
has been extremely commercialized. An "ideal beauty" is an entity which
is admired, or possesses features widely attributed to beauty in a particular
culture.
The experience of "beauty"
often involves the interpretation of some entity as being in balance and
harmony with nature, which may lead to feelings of attraction and emotional
well-being. Because this is a subjective experience, it is often said that
"beauty is in the eye of the beholder". In its most profound sense, beauty
may engender a salient experience of positive reflection about the meaning
of one's own existence. A "subject of beauty" is anything that resonates
with personal meaning. |
