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TOPIC 1. APPEARANCE, CLOTHES , FASHION
Text 1. Beauty
Beauty is the phenomenon of the experience of pleasure, through the perception of
balance and proportion of stimulus. It involves the cognition of a balanced form and
structure that elicites.
Understanding the nature and meaning of beauty is one of the key themes in the
philosophical dis cipline known as aesthetics.
The composer and critic Robert Schumann distinguished between two kinds of beauty,
natural beauty and poetic beauty: the former being found in the contemplation of nature, the
latter in man's conscious, creative intervention into nature. Schumann indicated that in
music, or other art, both kinds of beauty appear, but the former is only sensual delight, while
the latter begins where the former leaves off.
A common theory says that beauty is the appearance of things and people that are
good. This has many supporting examples. Most people judge physically attractive human
beings to be good, both physically and on deeper levels.
"Beauty as goodness" still has whole class es of s ignificant counterexa mples with no
agreed solution. These include such things as a glacier, or a ruggedly dry desert mountain
range. Many people find beauty in hostile nature, but this seems bad, or at least unrelated to
any sense of goodness. Another type of counterexample are comic or sarcastic works of art,
which can be good, but are rarely beautiful.
It is well known that people's s kills develop and change their s ens e of beauty.
Carpenters may view an out-of-true building as ugly, and many master carpenters can see
out-of-true angles as small as half a degree. Many musicians can likewise hear as dissonant
a tone that's high or low by as little as two percent of the distance to the next note. Most
people have similar aesthetics about the work or hobbies they've mastered.
Beauty an d human appe arance
Symmetry may be important because it is evidence that the person grew up in a
healthy way, from without visible genetic defects. One traditional, subtle feature that is
cons idered an indication of beautiful women in all cultures is a wais t-to-hip ratio of about
70% (waist circumference that is 70% of the hips circumference). The waist-to-hip ratio
(WHR) theory was discovered by psychologist Dr. Devendra Singh of the University of
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