Nomad Willy
Guru
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder!!
I think that’s an old wife's tale.
There are elements of beauty and those that spend their lives in art or industrial design can usually (almost always) identify beauty when they see it.
In the elements of beauty there are beautiful shapes that can be identified over not so beautiful shapes. Sometimes the elements of beauty can be identified by artists and designers but I suspect they sometimes don’t know what it specifically is.
But the word beautiful exists so there must be an essence that is unique. An example of an element of art/design is when shapes of common forms are grouped w similar shapes it is good. And a lot of one shape w one form very different is most often bad. Like a boat w slightly slanted windows and also w one round window is visually confusing and undesirable.
But the saying “beauty in in the eye of the beholder” is nonsense. If that were true beauty wouldn’t exist.
And if you’re about to jump me for thread drift consider that “interesting” boats has a lot in common w “beautiful” boats. And some boats are beautiful because they are interesting. But to call this visual philosophy isn’t too far off either.
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