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How have beauty and the grotesque been portrayed in art?
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Lucy Lynn-Evans HOW HAVE BEAUTY AND THE GROTESQUE BEEN PORTRAYED IN ART? Is beauty in the eye of the beholder, or does it stem from the artists' brush? Where can we find beauty in art; in landscape, people, myth or still life? Camille Picasso believe that 'happy are those who see beautiful things in modest surroundings or where other men see nothing. Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to know how to interpret In contrast, grotesque images are a different problem. It is hardly a popular opinion that ugliness surrounds us as beauty does, so we must ask ourselves, where has the numerous examples of the grotesqueness in art arisen from? Is it in the eye of the beholder or is it staring us in the face all over the world. This is not a project to investigate the psychological role in the perception of the beautiful and of the grotesque. Instead...
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