Beauty of the Beast
“Beauty is animalistic, beautiful is celestial.”
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Featured Artists
Aldrovandi, Ulisse
Aldrovandi, Ulisse
Amir, Shaykh Muhammad
Arcimboldo, Giuseppe
Arcimboldo, Giuseppe
Arcimboldo, Giuseppe
Arcimboldo, Giuseppe
Audubon, John James
Audubon, John James
Bonheur, Auguste François
Bonnard, Pierre
Bonnard, Pierre
Bosch, Hieronymus
Brascassat, Jacques Raymond
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter
Brueghel the Elder, Jan
Brueghel the Younger, Jan
Chagall, Marc
Chagall, Marc
Chardin, Jean-Baptiste Siméon
Chardin, Jean-Baptiste Siméon
Courbet, Gustave
Courbet, Gustave
Courbet, Gustave
Courbet, Gustave
Cranach, Lucas
Crane, Walter
Da Vinci, Leonardo
Da Vinci, Leonardo
De Luna, Charles
Degas, Edgar
Desportes, François
Desportes, François
Dürer, Albrecht
Dürer, Albrecht
Dürer, Albrecht
Dürer, Albrecht
Dürer, Albrecht
Dürer, Albrecht
Dürer, Albrecht
Dürer, Albrecht
Gauguin, Paul
Gauguin, Paul
Generalic, Ivan
Generalic, Ivan
Géricault, Théodore
Hicks, Edward
Hicks, Edward
Hicks, Edward
Hiroshige, Utagawa
Hiroshige, Utagawa
Hiroshige, Utagawa
Hiroshige, Utagawa
Hiroshige, Utagawa
Hirschfield, Morris
Hokusai, Katsushika
Hokusai, Katsushika
Hokusai, Katsushika
Hokusai, Katsushika
Hokusai, Katsushika
Hokusai, Katsushika
Jacque, Charles-Emile
Kandinsky, Wassily
Klee, Paul
Klee, Paul
Kuhnert, Friedrich Wilhelm
Manet, Edouard
Manet, Edouard
Manet, Edouard
Mansur
Marc, Franz
Marc, Franz
Marc, Franz
Marc, Franz
Marc, Franz
Marc, Franz
Marc, Franz
Matisse, Henri
Oudry, Jean-Baptiste
Picasso, Pablo
Picasso, Pablo
Pirosmani, Niko
Pompon, François
Potter, Paulus
Ranson, Paul
Rembrandt
Rembrandt
Rembrandt
Rembrandt
Rembrandt
Remington, Frederic
Remington, Frederic
Robert-Fleury, Joseph Nicolas
Robillard, Hippolite
Rousseau, Henri
Rousseau, Henri
Rousseau, Henri
Rubens, Peter Paul
Shishkin, Ivan
Steinlen, Théophile
Stubbs, George
Stubbs, George
Susini, Antonio or Giovanni Francesco
Troyon, Constant
Van Gogh, Vincent
Van Gogh, Vincent
Velázquez, Diego
Velázquez, Diego
Warhol, Andy
Warhol, Andy
Warhol, Andy
Simple Notion of Beauty
In defining beauty, we say of it, first, that it is a simple and primary quality. It is uncompounded. No two or three qualities in any method present can compass it with their combined effects. No analysis can resolve it into other perceptions, but there always remains something unresolved and unexplained, which is beauty.
The Three Black Auks (detail)
Anonymous, c. 27,000-19,000 BCE
Cosquer Cave, Calanque de Morgiou
This is proved by the fact that the most successful of these resolutions, while they hit on qualities frequently concomitant with beauty and intimately related to it, are never able to go beyond this companionship and show the identity of those