Beauty

Today I'm going to talk about a subject very controversial: beauty.

Beauty across the history was very discussed, since we have conscious. 

This is studied from different disciplines, such as psychology, sociology, but especially from the aesthetic. Ordinarily, people say that beauty is what causes pleasure in the perception.

I think beauty is an personal and cultural experience, at the same time.

Has subjective and social components, building a personal vision, that is adapted to the social vision. A micro-vision that adapts to a macro-vision.

Beauty is the subject of the video made by TED: Ideas worth spreading (www.ted.com) , called ¨A Darwinian Theory of Beauty?", in this video Denis Dutton talks about a relation between beauty, biology and art.

 He think that beauty isn't a social construction, but has to do with evolution and natural selection. He links all this with Darwin theory of evolution.   

I think that his ideas are too basics and unsustainable, above all when we know and study this in our University. A lot of philosophy and theory could deny with better arguments, from sociology or antropology, all that Denis Dutton Says.

How could we know if prehistoric humans think this or that was beautiful?

He have a really positivist way of thinking.

Well, that was my comment about this video

Cheers!

My Favorite Artist

 today I’m going to talk about Slinkachu one of my favorite artist

He is a british street artist, photographer and blogger. This artist, was born as Stuart Pantoll, he says that he always has been interested in small things, when he was young, his dad made for him a train set,  but he never was interested in the trains, it was always the figures, houses and trees that fascinated him.

Born in 1979, this artist of 34 years old, uses every day’s objects, and tiny figurines, to create very small street-­-based installations and then photographs them: from far away and up-­- close. He could also be described as a miniaturist; he modifies tiny human figurines from model train sets and places them in real urban situations, capturing them in sight-­-seeing, camping, grocery shopping, fighting or dying.

He spent the last eight years shooting his miniature tableaux on the streets of London. Funny and touching, he put urban life under the microscope. Slinkachu's approach to street art is more subtle, more sensitive. You could easily walk right past one of Slinkachu's installations and not know it's there. His photographs are the key: the close-­-ups make you feel like a participant, while the far-­-away shots leave you feeling like a spectator.

His first solo exhibition was in august 2008, London, on the Cosh Gallery, but began his series of Little People in 2006, as respite from his day job in publishing. In relation with little things he says: “I didn't expect people to empathize with the characters so much. We have an innate pull to look after small things – kids, dogs, hamsters... People project their own feelings on to them.”

Slinkachu has become very famous , Now his photographs sell for up to £7000. Well, to fnish , maybe we could say that this works are meant to be published or to be in the museum, without that , Slinkachu couldn't exist as an artist.